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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.

So far in this offseason, Dylan Cease seems like he is headed to Toronto, and Raisel Iglesias and Josh Naylor have signed new deals. Four more accepted their qualifying offers that includes Brandon Woodruff, Trent Grisham, Shota Imanaga, and Gleyber Torres and that leaves 43-names remaining in the MLB Trade Rumors Top-50 rankings.

To our baseball community, thank you.

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.”