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"When it comes to the Nats' minor-league system, there's no name I trust more than Andrew Flax."
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Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
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I hate to say it, but Rizzo has done an incredible job with the rebuild. Look at this potential 2025 Nats lineup:
INDICTED IN GEORGIA'S 2020 ELECTION CASE:
1. Donald Trump
2. Rudy Giuliani (lawyer)
3. John Eastman (lawyer)
4. Mark Meadows (fmr. White House Chief of Staff)
5. Kenneth Chesebro (lawyer)
6. Jeffrey Clark (ex-assistant attorney general)
7. Jenna Ellis (lawyer)
8. Ray Smith III
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SOURCE: The Nationals have met with Shohei Ohtani. Ohtani was “blown away” by a presentation including MASN 2 graphics and an appearance from two of four racing presidents. The meeting took place at the Raku in Cathedral Heights, which Ohtani said was “a great value.”
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stop retweeting this!!!! presidents only do this when they're VERY distressed!!!!!
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That's right baby: The owners and the union discovered a COVID vaccine.
Play ball! Hearing owners and players have worked it all out, and there will be baseball.
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The Nats are playing the Cubs in the playoffs, and this gif's prophecy is finally coming true. Channing is the Prince who was Promised.
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This is your friendly reminder that the Nationals have five more seasons of Victor Robles and Juan Soto.
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The Nats claim four of the top nine moments from this season:
9. Soto's Wild-Card game single
6. The 7-run comeback against the Mets
4. Howie's grand slam
1. Howie's two-run homer/Nats win Game 7
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It has gone almost completely unnoticed, but Keibert Ruiz has caught fire in the second half.
First half: .226/.279/.360, 5.2% BB rate, .134 ISO, 72 wRC+
Second half: .312/.379/.494, 10.3% BB rate, .182 ISO, 136 wRC+
So much for underperforming his expected stats?
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Do NOT criticize Aníbal Sánchez, that man threw 7.2 innings of no-hit ball in the NLCS and you will RESPECT HIM
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This is a 100% competitive offer, which is awesome to see. Nobody can say they're not trying to keep him. The counterpoint is that nobody leaks the numbers unless negotiations have stopped. This has all the hallmarks of a "we tried"/"here's the baseline, other teams" report.
Nationals offer Anthony Rendon seven-year deal worth $210 million-$215 million
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The good news is that the Washington Nationals won the World Series.
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@ActNormalOrElse
all of those professions have existed for millennia. only recently has humanity progressed to the point that Randy Johnson can exist
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Soto had a wRC+ 16 points higher than Acuña and should probably have won the Silver Slugger over him.
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Here's the Nats lineup I want to see through August:
SS Abrams
LF Wood
1B Yepez
RF Blankenhorn
2B Garcia
C Ruiz
DH Chaparro
3B Tena
CF Young
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Anthony, you’ve just hit the biggest home run of your life in a World Series elimination game! How do you feel?
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Select players slugging under .400:
- Alex Bregman
- Trea Turner
- Xander Bogaerts
Select players slugging above .400:
- CJ Abrams
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Dylan Crews, Yohandy Morales, and Andrew Pinckney are all tearing up Low-A, but none of them should even be there. Major conference college baseball is ahead of Low-A's level of competition, especially the SEC (where Crews and Pinckney raked). They should be at Wilmington.
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The Nationals would be below the A's if it weren't for Patrick Corbin. The only two other players on the team making more than $2M are Keibert Ruiz ($6.4M) and Kyle Finnegan ($5.1M).
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Petition to call the Soto extension saga
#JuanPursuit
, all in favor say aye
On the latest development in the Juan Soto Future saga:
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Dylan Crews in April: .224/.296/.367, 36.4% K rate, 5.5% BB rate
Dylan Crews in May: .315/.387/.590, 22.6% K rate, 11.3% BB rate
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Herz getting that 13th strikeout was the biggest roar I've heard from a Nats crowd in a while. God I need them to be good again soon.
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You merely adopted the losing. Zim was born in it, molded by it.
Ryan Zimmerman on the sell-off: "I think it's the right move to make."
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Nats are still in a great spot. If you win tomorrow, you're in command of the series. And if you lose, it's a three-game series for all the marbles. As the underdog, turning a 7-game series to a 3-game series is a win for you.
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Now that we're two months into the season...
Dylan Crews in April: .224/.296/.367, 36.4% K rate, 5.5% BB rate, 90 wRC+
Dylan Crews in May: .298/.378/.512, 17.3% K rate, 10.2% BB rate, 147 wRC+
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I feel Twitter's pulse, and I know exactly what you want to hear:
Jarlin Susana really seems like he's turning a corner. His last 5 starts: 25 IP, 11 H, 2 ER, 9 BB, 41 K. He's struck out at least 7 batters in each of these starts; he never struck out 7 in a start last year.
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Some personal news, take 2: Today is my last day at Defector. It has been an incredible pleasure, and I am so excited to see how this company continues to grow.
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If you're curious what's driven CJ Abrams' recent hot streak, the answer couldn't be clearer: He's chasing much less.
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Your occasional Elijah Green check-in:
- 2023: .210/.323/.306, 41.9% K rate
- 2024: .169/.264/.271, 45.7% K rate
He's striking out more, walking less, and hitting worse overall despite repeating the same level. Any remaining hope of him being an MLB player is slipping away fast.
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Keibert just came off a nasty illness and lost 15-20 pounds; I think he deserves slack. And Winker was hot enough early in the season that he deserves some rope too. But Rosario and Meneses should be under some very strict scrutiny.
Joey Meneses is 1 for his last 19.
Jesse Winker is 4 for his last 36.
Keibert Ruiz is 1 for his last 31.
Eddie Rosario is 0 for his last 26.
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Guardians is video-game-without-MLB-rights-ass name, and the font looks weirdly blocky, but the little baseball logo is cool.
The Cleveland Indians announce they are changing their name to the Guardians.
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Patrick Corbin has been designated for assignment.
NEWS: The Nationals are the first known MLB team to part ways with unvaccinated FT employees, making multiple personnel changes today, inc. a few related to those who have not gotten the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Nats are gonna look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves 'we gotta get older'
Free-agent left-hander Jon Lester is in talks with the Nationals, sources tell me and
@jon_greenberg
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I would like to issue a mea culpa.
We all made fun of Rizzo for those "I don't care how hard you throw ball four" signs, but Nats starters have majorly cut their walk rates.
Irvin: 10.2% -> 4.4%
Gore: 9.8% -> 7.6%
Parker: 11.1% (minors) -> 4.5%
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FACT CHECK: the Nationals are 2-0 this postseason when allowing two runs in the first inning.
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Robles is really held to an unrealistic standard by Soto, but don't forget that he's only 23. He's arguably the best defensive CF in the game, and if his bat catches up? Look out.
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Dylan Crews at...
AA: 23.7% K rate, 7.6% BB rate, .172 ISO, .343 BABIP
AAA: 16.8% K rate, 9.7% BB rate, .169 ISO, .282 BABIP
The robo-umps have surely helped, but Crews has controlled the zone even better at AAA than AA (especially after 5 walks in his last 3 games).
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Time for some DLC for Shailene Woodley 2K21
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Is there any reason the Nats shouldn't give Soto a seven-year, ~$80M extension with two options on the end of it right now? Just do it for me, please.
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As far as I see it, here are all the scenarios for Game 162 tomorrow:
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The Nationals rushed García to a pretty extreme degree. Imagine if he debuted last year and was playing like this in his second MLB season at age 24. You’d think he was a certain star.
All the more reason to extend him!
Luis Garcia Jr ranks 7th amongst all 2nd baseman in fWAR, he ranks 3rd in the NL
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Davey has putting Doolittle in four-run games all year, just to prepare for this moment... what foresight
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Jesus how had I never heard this, please fire whoever is speaking in this video ASAP
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I am laughing so hard that Victor Robles, after exasperating everyone for five years, has suddenly decided to be good.
Robles with another impressive 2-strike base hit. His approach has completely changed. And he's now batting .424 on the season.
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I’m at the Red Sox season ticket holder event where people get to do on-field BP and some guy just went up there and bunted
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This is activism.
6 of CJ Abrams' 9 errors have come in games started by Patrick Corbin.
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If you trade Soto, you better spend every penny of the $60M he'd have made these next two seasons on player development. You can't screw this up.
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Here's the Soto hit with the radio call if you're looking for it:
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I've been going through some old tweets, and one thing that's essential to remember is that the Washington Nationals won the 2019 World Series.
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You guys aren't gonna believe this...
CJ Abrams with a RBI double into the gap to give the Nationals a 3-1 lead. With each at-bat, Abrams is looking like the Abrams we saw in April. Six of his last seven hits have been XBHs.
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Nats will have first dibs on Lamet by virtue of having the worst record in the NL. He’s the kind of guy an org with zero pitching should absolutely take a flier on.
Brewers Designate Dinelson Lamet, Pedro Severino For Assignment
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Rebuild OVER, time to CONTEND
Final: Nats 3, Orioles 0. The Washington Nationals (18-17) have a winning record for the first time since July 1, 2021, the night Alex Avila strained both of his calves playing second base in an emergency.
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@NotABigJerk
Each of us faces a choice: whether to accept the brands of snack foods available at the grocery store, or to become the type of person who buys snacks online
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I need Rizzo to really take this team down to the studs tomorrow. Trade Thomas, Finnegan, and every reliever. Let me spend August parsing Orlando Ribalta's CSW% in four MLB innings and overanalyzing the BABIP of some first base prospect at Low A.
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Mike Rizzo… all is forgiven
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It is kind of crazy how Young has seemingly emerged as the best defensive CF (or... best defender?) in baseball. He was never on any Nats top prospect list, and he played more LF than CF in 2023. Where did this come from?
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Max rejecting a trade to the Mets is more important than him staying in DC
Little more on the Scherzer situation. Mets did enough digging to learn that Scherzer himself would not agree to play for them. Has no trade rights.
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In his last 20 games, Elijah Green is hitting .289/.386/.566, with a better-for-him 36.4% K rate and 13.6% walk rate. Is the dream alive?
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Does anyone know if this is good? Asking for a prospect.
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Jonathan Lucroy has tied Dan Haren on the Nationals' all-time RBI list.
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Folks, it is one game in 40 degree weather. Scout reviews of Crews in spring were strong (and BA published an article about that literally yesterday). Let’s all calm down.
Dyan Crews: 0-for-5 with 4 Ks. Yikes. Looked really, really bad. Swinging right through fastballs in the zone, chasing breaking stuff in the dirt. Not great. Just ... not great.
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Man, I’m so glad the Nats won the World Series so I can feel genuinely happy for noted good guy Lucas Giolito.
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And thus beginneth the Jon Lester Trade Tree. Long may it prosper.
Full trade of Lane Thomas to Cleveland. Washington receives: Jose Tena, Rafael Ramirez and Alex Clemmey.
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In a shocking reversal, firing Davey may have become more important than firing Rizzo.
Dave Martinez just announced that the whole major league staff will return next season.
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Wow! A little surprising but not undeserved. Since May 1, Crews is hitting .292/.359/.474 with a 19% K rate and 8% BB rate.
Those are strong numbers for such an offense-suppressing park. For reference, James Wood hit .248/.334/.492 at AA last year.
The Washington Nationals are promoting Dylan Crews to Triple A with the Rochester Red Wings!
#LSU
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Corbin going 12 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 4 BB, 12 K in two starts to save his job is insanely funny to me. It implies that he doesn't suck -- he's just been mailing it in for four years because they didn't need him to be good.
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Wood in his last 14 games: .383/.491/.681, 15 K (26.3%), 10 BB (17.5%), 94.6 average exit velocity (would be 5th in baseball). He's pretty good!
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It's official: The Nationals have worse player development than the NC Dinos.
From
@K_Williamsmedia
’s story: “It’s just proof of how such a different player I am now,” Fedde said of his development. “Looking back a couple of years ago, if you told me I was striking out close to double digits and going deep in games, I would probably chuckle a little.”
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Unfortunately it’s impossible to say if Abrams pulling the ball is correlated with him hitting for power.
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The Nats blurb in this is maybe the best thing I’ve seen written about this team. It’s so good.
Seven unmissable highlights from the sports world in 2019.
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Robert Hassell at AA:
- First 40 games: .220/.312/.289 (.069 ISO), 32.1% K rate, 12.0% BB rate
- Since: .237/.318/.359 (.122 ISO), 25.9% K rate, 10.6% BB rate
Certainly still not where you want him to be, but the power seems to be on its way back, and the Ks are coming down.
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2024 Nationals as 2011 Nationals:
CJ Abrams: Ryan Zimmerman
MacKenzie Gore: Jordan Zimmermann
Jake Irvin: John Lannan
Hunter Harvey: Tyler Clippard
Kyle Finnegan: Drew Storen (sorry)
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“In plate appearances, hits, runs scored, total bases and pretty much whatever category you choose, the Nationals are dead last. In runs created, if you doubled their total, they’d still be last.”
Is that good
The team best at drafting hitters? The Astros
The team worst at drafting hitters? The Nationals.
@jjcoop36
has a look at how every team has done at drafting hitters over the last decade.
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Do the Nationals have worse pitching development than the NC Dinos
Erick Fedde continues to dominate in his KBO debut season with 8 more Ks today!
In 31 innings, he has a 0.58 ERA & 37 strikeouts...
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I think it needs to be June before I officially hit the big red "JOSIAH GRAY IS GOOD" button, but I am officially flipping open the big plastic cover on it.
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World’s Most Hungover Man Attends Baseball Game
Tom Wilson carried
#StanleyCup
back into Nats clubhouse. Braden Holtby and Alex Ovechkin followed.
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My main takeaway from tonight: This does not feel like a typical Rizzo draft. Two guys with strong contact skills and a cold-weather high schooler? I'm not sure the Nationals have ever drafted guys like these. This has Haas and Ciolek all over it, which is encouraging.
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Dylan Crews in the first 3 games of the season + his first 2 games back from injury: .095/.136/.095, 64% K rate
Dylan Crews in all other games (8 games): .355/.429/.677, 18% K rate
Maybe he's just a slow starter?
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One of the few silver linings about watching a bad team in August is seeing young players continue to improve. It’s been exciting to see that happen for Abrams and Ruiz.
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This is a comical misfortune, even by Nats standards. Trey Lipscomb, come on down.
Nick Senzel broke his thumb fielding a ground ball pre-game, according to a source familiar with the injury.
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Is this the best start by a drafted and developed Nationals pitcher since Game 6 of the 2019 World Series?
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Every time I tweet Rizzo a compliment he does a roster move I like. Next up: DFA Weems for Orlando Ribalta!
The Nationals are calling up infielder Andrés Chaparro, per multiple sources. Spent 8 yrs. in the minors and now has a chance to make his MLB debut.
Chaparro was acquired for Dylan Floro at the trade deadline. Hitting .328 with 23 homers and a .977 OPS in AAA this year.
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The Nationals are now tied in the loss column with the Angels for the third-best lottery odds. They need to really tank, get a high pick, and fire into contention on a high note next season.
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I would prefer the Nats re-sign Anthony Rendon instead of Javy Guerra. But that is simply , “My Opinion”
The Nationals re-signed Javy Guerra to a minor league deal late last night. He’s the fourth member of the World Series roster to return after becoming free agents so far.
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And again: It is a hard time to be any sort of contact pitcher for the Washington Nationals.
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For all the anxiety about Dylan Crews' strikeouts, he now has 8 strikeouts in his last 65 PAs -- a cool 12.3% K rate.
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@cdgoldstein
We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because Soto puts a charge into that one, deep to straightaway center! See! You! Later!
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