Time to Say Goodbye
The Nats finished their crucial series against one of the worst teams in baseball with a 4-game split, scoring 1 run in the final two games. They are going to enter August with a record at or below ....
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2017 NL East Rankings Part 2: The Pitchers
If you missed it, yesterday we ranked the NL East teams by position players. Methodology for this little exercise is written there. After examining the position players, here’s where we stand coming ...
Wieters Raises the Floor
It’s an odd place we’re in right now, trying to see if the Nationals’ upgraded by acquiring a player who is replacing someone who has never played for them. But that’s where w...
Nats Might Be Getting Aggressive
There have been rumors the last few days that the Nats are going to be aggressive this offseason. And they should be, but what I’m wondering is what exactly that means. Sure, they need to fill ...
Gio Should Get His Shot
The latest news on the Nationals pitching staff hopefully heralds the return of Joe Ross. It remains to be seen whether Ross will start in the playoffs, and whether he can. If Ross does indeed come b...
You’re Gonna Need to See a Specialist for That
The Nats bullpen has been overused the last week, thanks to short stints from starting pitchers. However, since the addition of Mark Melancon, most of the title-worthy roles appear to have stabilized...
He’s Not the Good Old Gio, but He Is Good
With an ERA that is top-10 in the NL, and a FIP that is top-20, Gio Gonzalez has looked really good this season. But he’s not the good, old Gonzalez of 2012, who placed third in Cy Young voting and l...
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...
2016 NL East Rankings Part 2: The Pitchers
After examining the position players last time, here’s where we stand coming into the pitching round of the competition: SCORE: DC (32), NY (32), MIA (26), ATL (18), PHI (12) This whole ranking is fa...
PECOTA and the Nats in 2016
Baseball Prospectus came out with their PECOTA predictions for the 2016 season, and I took a look to see how the Nats fared. Let’s keep in mind a few things here. First, this is a set of algori...