by Andrew Lang
by Stan4Nats
by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears
by Andrew Lang
The Washington Nationals have been finding ways to come-from-behind for wins. From a 4-0 deficit to an 11-5 winner has to feel good as nearly everyone on the Nats’ side contributed to the win. Tonight, weather permitting, the Nats will face Blake Snell who is coming off of a no-hitter. The Nats have their top pitcher, Jake Irvin, on the mound.
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The Washington Nationals Twitter/X account posted up what they called “a painting” that looked a photo, so we used Photoshop to get us started on creating a DC Masterpiece, and then added some brushstrokes. In the center of the painting is James Wood sporting the Uncle Slam hat, and he is surrounded by his teammates in a celebration of one of the most impressive home runs in Nats’ history.
For Wood, that was just his 31st career game, and he did it all last night with a home run, triple, two walks, two stolen bases, and four runs scored, to get his team to an 11-5 laugher that began kind of gloomy in a first inning 4-0 deficit.
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The Washington Nationals have a new team leader in WAR (Wins Above Replacement) as Luis Garcia Jr. captured the top spot yesterday. Of course, it could be short-lived since Garcia is only fractionally ahead of MacKenzie Gore who starts tonight. This will be a battle to the end to see who is voted locally as the team’s MVP. What a positive impact from Garcia who was demoted a year ago this week to Triple-A Rochester — and was not a lock to make the Nats’ Opening Day roster this year. Not only did he come into training camp in great shape, his defense is markedly improved and rated second best on the team.
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The Washington Nationals got a 5.0 inning gem from DJ Herz on Saturday followed by a 6.0 inning gem by Mitchell Parker in back-to-back zero earned run outings. Both James Wood and Luis Garcia Jr. came through to provide the needed run-support.
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There seemed to be an assumption regarding the ordering of Washington Nationals top prospects to make their MLB debuts. As the common thinking was assumed, James Wood would be called up first, then Dylan Crews, and finally Brady House from the Nationals’ Top-3 prospects. That group of prospects, who all finished their 2023 seasons together at Double-A Harrisburg, arrived at Spring Training this year to find side-by-side lockers, that manager Dave Martinez nicknamed as “Hope Row”.
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The Washington Nationals got a 5.0 inning gem from DJ Herz, and some power from Luis Garcia Jr. to halt that losing streak in front of over 30,000 fans in attendance yesterday. But maybe the real story is that Garcia was demoted to the minor leagues exactly one year ago. He has come back playing much improved defense, limiting mistakes, and a clutch bat. This morning, he leads all Nats’ position players in FanGraphs WAR. One of the best redemption stories in baseball.
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The Washington Nationals are now mired in a 5-game losing streak. Defensive mistakes have been costly, and of course the umpiring was a factor in yesterday’s disappointing loss.
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The Washington Nationals are back home for a long homestand, and the team has to snap this losing streak. They will call on Jake Irvin to be their stopper. By the way, today is an AppleTV+ game as the only televised option.
What is kind of incredible for the entire month of August is that the Nats charter jet will only be used for the weekend of August 23rd, and the rest of the month, the team has two bus trip series within 140 miles of Nationals Park. The rest of the games are home games. There are 18 home games, and just nine road games, of which the Nats can commute to-and-from for two of those nine games in Baltimore. The split so far has been only 50 home games and 59 road games.
Continue readingAfter the 2023 MLB draft, nearly a year ago, a discussion was started as to the future callups of the top prospects on the Washington Nationals. The team had just drafted Dylan Crews, and the Nats had James Wood and Brady House as the other two prospects in the system. The Wood part of that discussion was solved on July 1 when the Nats called him up for his MLB debut. Crews and House are currently at the Nats’ Triple-A affiliate in Rochester.
The next part of the discussion comes to the timing of callups for House and Crews. There are certainly “team control” ramifications. An MLB player, per the CBA, gets a maximum of 6+ seasons of team control prior to reaching free agency, but it can certainly be less given the new Prospect Promotion Incentive (PPI) rules that immediately impacted the Orioles with the Adley Rutschman callup. If you callup a player 16 days into the season whereby they have 171 days or less in service time you can get to the maximum of team control in the 6+ seasons — but the risk to the team is under the new service time PPI manipulation rules.
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The 2024 MLB trade deadline was nothing short of dramatic, as teams scrambled to make strategic moves that could define the rest of their season. This year’s trades were not just about acquiring talent but also about making smart, calculated decisions to balance immediate needs with future potential.
From heartwarming reunions to surprising exchanges, let’s dive into the most intriguing and smartest trades that have shaped the MLB landscape this year.
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