Click to Read an Important Member Update Regarding Our Comment System
We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
We understand there have been frustrations and increased feedback, and we’re actively working to improve things. What we ask is simple: use the system and give it a fair shot. If you run into issues, please submit them through the support form so we can track and fix them properly. Repeated complaints without details don’t help us solve problems—we appreciate your patience as we continue refining the experience.
If you’d like a full side-by-side comparison of the platforms and the reasons behind this decision, please refer to the chart below. This change is being made with the long-term benefit of the entire community in mind.
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Did the Washington Nationals quietly win the 2025 Trade Deadline? Let’s break it down, and begin with some background. During one of the wildest stretches in franchise history, the Nationals fired GM Mike Rizzo, and replaced him with Mike DeBartolo as the interim GM. The Nats flipped six veterans players of which five were going to be free agents after the season. In return, DeBartolo received back 10 prospects at the trade deadline. Only one has debuted so far, but the rest form one of the deeper prospect returns the Nats have had in years.
Happy holidays, everyone! It’s been over a month since we’ve seen live baseball, and over two since the Nats have been allowed to muddy our day. With that, we’ve entered the time of year where GMs and amateur couch GMs (such as myself) have to shine.
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Within the realm of possibilities, Washington Nationals President of Baseball Operations, Paul Toboni, could decide to be very conservative in his spending this offseason. The ownership group should be instructing him, at the very least, to sign a veteran leader on a longer-term deal.
When Ryan Zimmerman talked recently on his 11th Inning Podcast, Zimmerman said the team needs a veteran team leader on a 2-to-4 year deal, and added, “I’m not saying to go crazy to get the top of the [free agent] list — that would be cool too.”
In 1969 Bob Gibson started 35 games with 28 complete games and a total of 314 innings pitched. Comparisons to Bob Gibson to today’s starting pitchers would be silly.
So lets look at Washington Senators pitcher Joe Coleman who started 36 games (plus 4 in relief) and pitched 12 complete games and pitched 247⅔ innings. In 2025 there were a total of 29 complete games and the most innings pitched by a single starter was Logan Webb (207 IP) and only two other starters had at least 200 innings: Garrett Crochet (205⅓ IP) and Cristopher Sánchez (202 IP).
Baseball has evolved over time and perhaps we will see an evolution of the concept of starting pitchers. Will we see some variant of tandem pitchers in the future? The idea is you pair two pitchers who can pitch multiple innings before handing it off to the bullpen.
Matt Borgschulte was recently rumored to be the Nats new hitting coach. He supposedly has said his analytics folks did simulation models for how to approach hitting. So, whoa DUH, it occurred to me that it was possible to simulate the viability of various approaches to tandem pitchers.
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Can you believe it is December 1st on Monday. We are now in the final weekend of November. For most baseball executives, the day after Thanksgiving has few “Black Friday” shopping opportunities.
There are some bargains that are out there for most teams as is normal with minor leaguers, lower level players, retreads, and finding players looking for rebound contracts. Three years ago on this day, the Washington Nationals did sign Jeimer Candelario after Thanksgiving in 2022. Candelario was coming off of a rough 2022 campaign in which he hit just .217 with a .633 OPS. That signing worked out very well for the Nats. Candelario did well in the 2023 season and was flipped at the July trade deadline for DJ Herz and Kevin Made.
Most Nats’ fans do not want to see the Nats shopping in that rebound aisle of the store because for every bounceback player that works, like Candelario and Jesse Winker, you have players like Lucas Sims, Nick Senzel, Eddie Rosario, and Joey Gallo that might not work. Nats fans want President of Baseball Operations, Paul Toboni, shopping at the luxury stores in this offseason.
There’s that theory that questions if a falling tree in a forest really makes noise when there is nobody around to hear it. That is deep to ponder. The same could be said for a site like this as to whether it exists if nobody reads it. Thanks to you all — we get read and shared — and we are a thriving Nats community.
In 2023, Cal Newport wrote an article for The New Yorker magazine about whether it’s time to move beyond the flawed idea of a global conversation platform like Twitter. Then Newport told the larger world about the TalkNats community. Cal understood what this place was all about. He wrote, “Ignored amid the hand-wringing about the toxic turn taken by large-scale conversation platforms are the many smaller, less flashy sites and services that have long been supporting a more civilized form of digital interaction. As a Washington Nationals baseball fan, for example, I enjoy lurking on the game-day discussion threads hosted by a modest but lively Web site called TalkNats.com.”
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We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
We understand there have been frustrations and increased feedback, and we’re actively working to improve things. What we ask is simple: use the system and give it a fair shot. If you run into issues, please submit them through the support form so we can track and fix them properly. Repeated complaints without details don’t help us solve problems—we appreciate your patience as we continue refining the experience.
If you’d like a full side-by-side comparison of the platforms and the reasons behind this decision, please refer to the chart below. This change is being made with the long-term benefit of the entire community in mind.