Who Can Be Center Field?
The loss of Adam Eaton for the season is a brutal one for the Nationals, but that doesn’t mean it will be debilitating. What they need in center field, rather than a true replacement for Eaton,...
Category Archives: Injuries
It May Not Be a Catcher that Replaces Ramos
The season ending injury to Wilson Ramos is obviously a big blow to the Nationals. And with everything Ramos has gone through, especially after the season he was having, it’s hard not to feel s...
Without a Race in September, Questions Can Be Answered
As September arrives, the NL East race is looking more like a stroll. The Nats still want to win enough games to keep home field advantage in the NLDS. But they are afforded the ability to rest some ...
The Key to the Nats Season is… Playing
Programming note: This is the first in a set of weekly posts that will run this year on MASNsports.com. I’ll will post these on Wednesday mornings, after they have time to first appear on the M...
#Winning at Second Base
As Anthony Rendon travels the nation, crowdsourcing opinions on his MCL, the Nats are preparing to enter the 2015 without their starting third baseman. Hopefully, it is for a short time, but whether ...
Putting Zim Back In
The Nats, having clinched the NL East and now playing for the best record in the NL, are in an interesting situation. They want to rest their players and still win games. While they won’t be ro...
What a Difference a Year Makes
Danny Espinosa was so incredibly bad in 2013 that his Baseball Prospectus WARP ranked 544th out of the 558 players that had 50 or more plate appearances. Keeping in mind that WARP is in essence a cou...
Plenty Left without Bryce
As the news of Bryce Harper‘s injury sinks in, its becoming clear that the Nats might not have one of their best players for over 2 months. He will basically be back in time for the All Star br...
While Zim’s Away
It looks like Ryan Zimmerman will have some time to rest his arthritic shoulder, as he broke his thumb sliding in to second base which is why YOU SHOULD NEVER SLIDE HEAD FIRST INTO ANY… oh neve...
A Third of the Way Through, Below .500, and Some Big Issues
It was a highly disappointing weekend, to say the least. I am not going to call it devastating, but things have been pretty rough, difficult to process, and a little hard to believe. But enough about...