The Hits Keep Coming for Roark
Things have not gone great so far this season for Tanner Roark. He’s gave up 6 ER in his last start, 7 the game before that, and already has six starts of 4 ER or more. Last year he had 8 all y...
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A Shot at Relief for the Bullpen
Have you heard? The Nats bullpen is bad. Also, and this may surprise you, they traded two of their best prospects this offseason for a player who unfortunately can’t contribute right now. The c...
New Nats Review Shirts
There’s a couple of new shirts in the Nats Review shop as of the last week. As with all the shirts on the host site, you can get them in a variety of colors, and in men’s or women’s...
Mein Gott, Go Get Gott Already
When the Nationals acquired Trevor Gott in exchange for Yunel Escobar in the winter of late 2015, it seemed clear that Gott would soon be in the Nats bullpen. After all, the rookie had spent most of ...
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,...
Beer Guide 2017
The Nationals Park Beer Guide has been updated – it’s up on the top level menu bar but you can just click here if all you wanted to do was see the maps. But, if you’re not at Nats Park hunting ...
2017 NL East Rankings Part 1: The Position Players
It’s that time again… time to rank the NL East, position by position. Over the last few years, tradition holds that a musical theme aids the entries. This year, I asked Twitter to help me...
Making Daniel Murphy the 2016 MVP
Was Daniel Murphy, who played a bad defensive second base all year and finished 2nd in MVP voting, robbed? Not by the voters, who got it right, but by his team, who played him at a position that he c...
This Aint Your Phillies’ Joe Blanton
The Nats signed Joe Blanton to round out their relieving corps today, so let’s start with that piece of it. The biggest thing about this signing isn’t that they specifically needed Blanto...
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...