The BABIP Question
The Nats starting pitching staff was perhaps the best in MLB in 2012. Some of that was expected, Stephen Strasburg for sure, and Jordan Zimmermann was repeating past performance. Edwin Jackson was go...
Monthly Archives: February 2013
What about these bench players?
Tyler Moore is a great player for the Nats to have. He is a bench player who had a .840 OPS with 10 HR in only 171 PAs last season. PECOTA actually predicts him to have 13 HRs next year in 251 PAs, w...
The Nationals Review Podcast Episode 16
On this weeks exciting spring training edition, Nationals Review Episode 16, Colm and Charlie discuss: 5 Nationals on Keith Law’s Top 100 Prospects List The Nats and PECOTA Projections Strasburg impr...
The Nats and PECOTA Projections
Oh poor Nats… they are just not as good as we all thought. At least that might be your first reaction if you look at the playoff odds report at Baseball Prospectus. They are projected to finish...
Zimmermann and Deep Counts
Baseball Prospectus had a great article yesterday in their series of mock arbitration hearings, focused on the Nats own Jordan Zimmermann. It’s a pay site, so I won’t get into the whole m...
Prepping for Position Rankings
It’s February, which means pretty soon, it’s gonna be March. And every year I rank the players on the teams in the NL East position by position. I’ve done it for a few years already...
5 Nationals on Keith Law’s Top 100 Prospects List
ESPN’s prospect guru Keith Law listed his Top 100 Minor League prospects today, and 5 Nats made the list. For a shallow farm system (ranked 21st by Law), the fact that there are so many high en...