Nats Get Their Starter
The Nats, for only, what, the second time in their history, went after a top flight free agent and actually signed him. The first time was Max Scherzer in January of 2015, and now it’s Patrick ...
Tag Archives: Joe Ross
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 ...
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 ...
The NLDS and the End of the Nats 2016 Season
A few minutes after the first pitch of game 5, my daughter came downstairs and asked why I was watching baseball so late at night. She had gotten out of bed to ask me something, and was a little disa...
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...
Nats Fans Looking through the Wrong Window
Last year there was quite a bit of talk about how the Nationals “window” was closing, because Jordan Zimmermann and Ian Desmond were leaving, along with a few others. But I never bought into that, an...
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...
Moving Beyond Windows – Building the 2016 Nationals
2015 was the end of an era for the Nationals, with a couple of long-tenured big contributors leaving. But while some think the window of opportunity for them has closed, I think that is a bit too par...
Keith Law and the Nats Top Prospects
On the heels of his overall minor league top 100 and his overall organizational rankings, Keith Law just came out with his top 10 for each team, including the Nationals. He didn’t dive into spe...