by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
Owning an MLB baseball team can be like owning a mansion in a hot real estate market. You watch the valuation of your asset skyrocket — but nobody knows that you are mortgaged to the hilt. Per Michael Ozanian of CNBC, the Washington Nationals have the second highest debt load as a percentage of team value in the MLB, second only to the Miami Marlins who sit at 38 percent.
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When you hear that a team is at their 30th game, you know that you are approaching that 20 percent mark in the season. That is when sample sizes are getting large enough to do some meaningful analysis.
The Washington Nationals will not be able to get to April 30th with a winning record. In fact, that continues to add to manager Dave Martinez‘s record of never having a winning record on April 30 in his 8-season tenure with the team. Having a losing record on April 30 isn’t a death knell as we saw Martinez’s 2018 team finished with a winning record — and his 2019 team won the World Series — but it does put you behind the 8-Ball to play catch up.
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The Washington Nationals have been getting exceptional starting pitching for most of the season. The starting pitching ERA is the 5th best in all of baseball with a 3.44 ERA. But the Nats offense is not getting the job done in games when the bullpen is actually good — like yesterday in a 2-0 Nats loss. The combination of Josh Bell, Nathaniel Lowe, and Keibert Ruiz in the weekend part of the series were a combined 1-21.
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The Washington Nationals have been getting exceptional starting pitching for most of the season. The starting pitching ERA is the 5th best in all of baseball with a 3.44 ERA. But the Nats offense is not getting the job done in games when the bullpen is actually good — like yesterday in a 2-0 Nats loss. The combination of Josh Bell, Nathaniel Lowe, and Keibert Ruiz in the first two games of this series are a combined 0-22.
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The Washington Nationals have Brad Lord on the mound, and the Nats could really use a win from this starter to keep the positivity flowing forward from last night’s walk-off win.
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The Washington Nationals and the NY Mets have identical records on runs scored this season, and the Mets are winning with exceptional starting pitching that is ranked best in the league. The Nats starting pitching is not too far behind. To beat the Mets, the Nats pitching has to be better.
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The Washington Nationals won the first two games of this series against Baltimore to take their record to 11-13. This series wraps up tonight against the Orioles. A key is for the Nationals who must go 5-2 or better to finish with a winning record on April 30 — something that manager Dave Martinez has not been able to do in his managerial career that began with the Nats in the 2018 season.
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