Dave Cameron ponders whether they need a CF upgrade, post-Eaton.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/adam-eaton-forces-the-nationals-to-make-another-big-decision/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 May 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
statcast data say that eaton is underrated by UZR, btw
looked at the nationals top prospects and while their best prospect is a centerfielder, he's only 19. i don't see any reason to panic for the time being tho. re-evaluate around trade deadline
― k3vin k., Monday, 1 May 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Is it a foregone conclusion that Harper doesn't resign with the Nats when the time comes? Am I missing something? He seems love it there and the Nationals are raking tons of cash these days.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 1 May 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
I always figured he was going to sign an insane, record-breaking deal with the Yanks, but I can definitely see him playing his career in Washington
― frogbs, Monday, 1 May 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
According to Joe Posnanski quoting somebody else, on track through 25 games to score the most runs ever.
― clemenza, Monday, 1 May 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
Checked that. Their projected 1,102 would beat the 1931 Yankees' 1,067, but not the 1894 Boston Beaneaters' 1,220 (Hugh Duffy). More realistic targets: 1950 Red Sox (1,027), 1999 Indians (1,009).
― clemenza, Monday, 1 May 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
great job whoever decided to do that the day they scored 23
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
harper himself is on pace to absolutely shatter the modern record for runs in a season tho (ruth with 177 in 1921). harper on pace for 207, assuming he plays the whole year
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 2 May 2017 00:40 (seven years ago) link
i don't think anyone has any idea what will happen when harper hits free agency. it's an unprecedented situation, like trying to put together a trade package for trout
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 00:40 (seven years ago) link
PECOTA has them scoring 623 the rest of the way for an unhistoric 793.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/daniel-murphy-is-a-value-adding-teammate/
daniel murphy reads fangraphs
― k3vin k., Saturday, 20 May 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Looking like the Nats might have to open up the bank to fix that bullpen if they want to win it all. Scherzer you could just let him go for nine, but you are not going to be able to play match up with these guys against the other NL likely playoff offenses.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
Is Harper still on track to score 483 runs or whatever
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
fangraphs rest of season projections has him at 109 runs. it doesn't seem like he's going to break the record
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link
WERE THERE EVER ANY HEROS ON THIS PLANET
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 04:55 (seven years ago) link
projections on May Day are for housewives and little girls
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link
but sexism is for everyone
― na (NA), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Kids in the Hall references for a select few
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link
Steal a car, drive it out west and then set it on fire...
― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:13 (seven years ago) link
tuesday is no good for the eradicator
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link
As usual, the P-Nats will have the best promotional giveaway of the season: the Ode to Tommy John surgery https://t.co/QnDzkCqu96 pic.twitter.com/wNN4tvJ8Mz— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) June 29, 2017
― maura, Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
turner getting greedy
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 June 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Turner out for months probably with that broken wrist. Damn.
― Gukbe, Friday, 30 June 2017 04:30 (seven years ago) link
feel like every time the camera cuts to dusty in the dugout he's cracking jokes
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 July 2017 02:31 (seven years ago) link
sheez scherzer, schez shteven shell, schtar schitzer
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 July 2017 03:17 (seven years ago) link
shtay slat schtven schtimes schfast, shhhhhhh
one of the cards' innings ended on a long flyout to right by carpenter, but scherzer thought it was gone off the bat -- i did too -- and he began screaming at himself. feel like he's getting weirder with each start
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 July 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
ryan zimmerman, all-time franchise home run leader
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 July 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
I normally don't pay much attention at this time of year but CW is as follows: Reliever situation apparently being relieved. Offense generally smoking.
Now they just need to decide when to choke in the postseason, right?
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 July 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
i think there's also the question of whether dusty will exhaust his starters while running away with the division
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 July 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
two relievers may not be enough
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 July 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Definitely won't be.
― Gukbe, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
So, when does the inevitable chokefest begin?
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 July 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Are you thinking a big enough chokefest to cost them the division? Some other year, not this one.
― Cannibal Adderley (WilliamC), Monday, 17 July 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
Oh no, the division is clearly theirs. They easily stomp the Mets/Braves/etc. The question is when they fold against more spirited competition.
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 July 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
But nobody's shit works in the playoffs. I'd be loath to call it a chokefest unless they get swept in round 1 and don't score any runs.
― Cannibal Adderley (WilliamC), Monday, 17 July 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
sometimes ya just lose
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 July 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
most of the time
― na (NA), Monday, 17 July 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
unless you are ned yost
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 July 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
i can't imagine even humoring the term "choke" for any team that isn't houston or LA. this nats team is good but not on that level (and they play in the easiest division ever)
― qualx, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
i thought the term 'choke' was reserved to Tom Brady and Derek Jeter fans.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 00:02 (seven years ago) link
Nats got Dusty Baker managing, things have just not worked out.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link
Washington teams feel like serial chokers when you're in it.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link
Eddie MatzESPN Senior Writer
With thousands of local campers in attendance at Nats Park, Washington has homered eight times through four innings. That's two shy of the single-game mark set by the '87 Blue Jays. The Nats tied an MLB record by going deep five times in the third, including four straight (also record-tying).
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 July 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
Travis Sawchik recommends catching upgrade:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-nationals-need-a-catcher/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 July 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
glad my Milwaukee Brewers could make history
― frogbs, Friday, 28 July 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
@JamalCollierUmmm… Matt Grace is coming into the game for Scherzer. He threw one warmup pitch and walked off the mound.
@JamalCollierScherzer appeared to tell Dusty “I can’t go” and gave the neck slash motion. Wow
Ladson "Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" in three, two...
― Andy K, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
@washingnatsWilliam Ladson Retweeted Jamal CollierWhoa!!!!!!!!!!
― Andy K, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 23:58 (seven years ago) link
hahaha
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
interesting night for them in Miami
good- 5-hit game for Howie Kendrick- 6-0 lead in the 2nd
bad- Scherzer neck spasms- lost 7-6
bullpen may not be fixed
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 11:12 (seven years ago) link
Giants found out they wouldn't be playing because someone in press box told them Nationals TV announcers left. Great work, Nationals.— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 12, 2017
seems to be a thing
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 August 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link
Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/6PxtZ7bxN6— William Ladson (@washingnats) August 13, 2017
― Andy K, Sunday, 13 August 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link
he looks very very injured
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 13 August 2017 02:53 (seven years ago) link
The photo on MLB.com looks awful--makes me think of Mantle. Can't believe the caliber of players who've gone down this year.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 August 2017 03:50 (seven years ago) link
Ken Rosenthal @BreakingSprtNwsBREAKING: Preliminary tests from #Nationals team doctors show that OF Bryce Harper has a torn ACL and PCL. MRI scheduled tomorrow.
― nomar, Sunday, 13 August 2017 04:28 (seven years ago) link
motherfuck
Preliminary test says torn ACL and PCL.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 13 August 2017 04:29 (seven years ago) link
ugh
― k3vin k., Sunday, 13 August 2017 04:33 (seven years ago) link
Can't believe the caliber of players who've gone down this year.
In no order: Correa, Kershaw, Kluber, Bumgarner, Syndergaard, Donaldson, Trout, Freeman... feel like I'm missing obvious ones.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 13 August 2017 04:40 (seven years ago) link
kiermaier
― k3vin k., Sunday, 13 August 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
this is the price we must pay for a full season of giancarlo stanton
― qualx, Sunday, 13 August 2017 05:05 (seven years ago) link
xpost
on a lesser scale, i was bummed when alex reyes went down for the season, although he's obviously not established like the others
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 13 August 2017 05:11 (seven years ago) link
Beltre, too. And a scare with Scherzer, though happily nothing came of it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 August 2017 05:32 (seven years ago) link
nomar, the rosenthal twitter account we refered to is fake.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 13 August 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
In no order: Correa, Kershaw, Kluber, Bumgarner, Syndergaard, Donaldson, Trout, Freeman... feel like I'm missing obvious ones.― Van Horn Street, Saturday, August 12, 2017 9:40 PM (one hour ago)
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, August 12, 2017 9:40 PM (one hour ago)
Harper's OF-mate Adam Eaton tore his ACL in April and will not play another game this season.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 13 August 2017 06:24 (seven years ago) link
Doolittle OTM in this whole thread.
It's 2017. Actual Nazis just marched on #Charlottesville. We have to come together & drive this hatred & domestic terrorism from our country— Sean Doolittle (@whatwouldDOOdo) August 13, 2017
― Andy K, Sunday, 13 August 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
this is all bryce harper's fault
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 13 August 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
oops, sorry, i thought you posted that on the wrong thread and was trying to make a dumb joke
good for doolittle!
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 13 August 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
This is encouraging:
http://www.tsn.ca/reports-harper-avoids-ligament-damage-1.829033
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 August 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Awesome
― Spottie, Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
Surprise!
While pitch counts are crude metrics, only 10 teams have allowed a starting pitcher to exceed 120 pitches this season; only two teams have allowed it to occur on multiple occasions.
Baker and the Nationals have accomplished it four times.
Baker is lapping the field....
It’s not curious just that Baker is leaning on his starters to an unusual degree relative to the league in 2017, but that he’s doing so at a time when the Nationals have a 14-game lead in the NL East and a 100% chance of reaching the NLDS according to FanGraphs playoff projections entering Monday. This would seem like the time to give players more rest when possible.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dusty-baker-is-throwing-caution-pitch-counts-to-the-wind/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
btw what Nat leads the NL in pitching bWAR?
Gio Gonzalez
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link
I was looking up something about Scherzer this morning and noticed that three of the Top 10 career leaders in K/9 currently pitch for the Nationals. Conceding there's a heavy era-bias there, that's still amazing--could you find another team in history where three of the top 10 anything played for one team? Maybe Ruth, Gehrig, and someone else were once 1-2-3 in career HR, I don't know.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 14:39 (seven years ago) link
Strasburg tossed a complete game shutout! only his second career shutout, and in his second career complete game. i remember the good ol days when a John Tudor could startle everyone and even himself and throw 10 shutouts in a season.
― nomar, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
110 pitches... I suppose acceptable even in a meaningless game.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
(ie, John Tudor threw almost 500 innings over his age 31 and 32 seasons, and only pitched one 'qualified' season after that. The price.)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link
the price of grit and determination, Dr.
― nomar, Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link
the price of throwing your arm out
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Scherzer (bruised calf) forced out after 5, hit by a comebacker
https://www.federalbaseball.com/2017/9/3/16247686/washington-nationals-max-scherzer-leaves-start-vs-brewers-after-comebacker-off-left-calf
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 September 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Is Scherzer/Gonzalez/Strasburg the best front of the rotation since Halladay/Hamels/Lee? Probably forgetting others.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 September 2017 01:05 (seven years ago) link
Division Champs!
― Gukbe, Monday, 11 September 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link
Still leading! This snuck up on me completely.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 11 September 2017 07:47 (seven years ago) link
he's back, and not just in costume
http://www.csnmidatlantic.com/washington-nationals/bryce-harper-jayson-werth-awesomely-lead-nats-game-thrones-dress
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
not the best news
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20874992/max-scherzer-washington-nationals-leaves-start-vs-pittsburgh-pirates-apparent-right-leg-injury
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 October 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
They sacked Dusty
― Gukbe, Friday, 20 October 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
along w/ the Chicago mold
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link