Making baseball Dusty again: Bryce Harper and the 2016 Nationals

@MarkZuckerman
Dusty took blame for giving wrong sign on botched Murphy/Werth hit-and-run: "I inadvertently touched the wrong part of my body."

"I inadvertently touched the wrong part of my body."

^this really shd of been the thread title lmao

when a guy is 66 it's bound to happen

ok daniel murphy .452/.553/.871

Bruce Harper with the 4th home run in 4 games, jeezus.

i see Murphy is still a whiny fuck about strike calls.

LOVE YA PAPS

Kansas City - Bottom of 9th WSH 6, KC 4

Jonathan Papelbon pitching for Washington

Gordon reached on infield single to shortstop.
Pérez singled to deep left, Gordon to third.
Gore ran for Pérez.
Gore stole second.
Infante struck out swinging.
Moustakas hit for Colón.
Moustakas singled to center, Gordon and Gore scored.
Dyson lined out to left.
Escobar singled to center, Moustakas to third.
Cain singled to deep center, Moustakas scored, Escobar to second. KC 7, WSH 6

Revere back and leading off today. Hope he keeps that obp under .320.

murph 4-for-4, now .406/.452/.660

nationals are being really cheap and/or stupid imo. they're likely going to be in a fight with the mets all season to avoid the wild card game, but they continue to run out danny espinosa and his .560 OPS rather than start trea turner's arbitration clock too early

bruce harper is only going to be there so much longer -- this year and two more
scherzer is only going to be good for so much longer, even when he doesn't give up four homers
werth and zimmerman are barely useful now, let alone the next 1 and 3 years of their contracts
your window is now; trying to save a couple million five years from now is idiotic

it's not like trea turner is a superstar, but c'mon. maybe it's just that dusty hates the kids

Strasburg also FA next winter.

but yeah, if Stanton stayed in Miami, I could see Harper deciding on staying in DC. not saying that's the most likely scenario, but it's a possibility.

harper's next contract is going to unlock the heavens, wherever it is

he seems like a guy who maybe wants to be in ny/la? i dunno, but certainly those are good candidates money-wise

agreed on it's now or never for the nats that being said. also phillies poised to become a powerhouse real soon.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25581526/tanner-roark-calls-cubs-walking-bryce-harper-scared-baseball

LOL

through 57 PA, Ben Revere has a .158 obp. Pretty much Dusty's ideal leadoff man. He's FAST.

@Mike_Vorkunov
Dusty Baker is talking about TJ surgery and goes on an aside about Frankenstein. "I was never afraid of him. He was too slow."

Bryce Harper is 0-for-20 against Matt Harvey

Pretty much Dusty's ideal leadoff man. He's FAST.

Yeah he can get from home plate to the dugout in under four seconds

daniel murphy is hitting *.400*

coulda posted that in the mets thread too ;)

@masnKolko
In 15% of Max Scherzer's starts as a National, he's taken a no-hitter into the 6th inning. In 11%, he's taken a perfect game into the 6th

watched a couple innings last night and i'm not sure how anybody hits him.

lotta homers tho

Baker genius wearing off at last

Strasburg to DL

boo

http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/06/23/washington-nationals-michael-taylor-los-angeles-dodgers-yasiel-puig

callup?

http://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/nationals-austin-voth-could-make-major-league-debut-tuesday/

yes, but giolito

mets get all the big debuts this year

Lucas Giolito's mom is an actress who was in Lost, The Ring, and a bunch of other stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Frost

also his grandfather played susan's father on seinfeld; a character, as gary cohen said last night, who 'had a knowledge' of john cheever

Cohen is so great.

https://s0.2mdn.net/viewad/2946704/300x250_WAS_bh_chai_630.jpg

Trea Turner and Michael A. Taylor up. Ryan Zimmerman to the DL, Giolito to Syracuse.

Not a huge fan of the Wade Davis - Lucas Giolito trade talks.

Seeing the Nats vs the Phillies on September 10th, with the possibility of getting a Nats beer stein (and seeing Scherzer).

really, how could i have doubted that at this point Dusty would have given Ben Revere 289 PA with a .213/.260/.291 slashline

And so the Corey Patterson cycle continues...

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/195335044/papelbon-reportedly-requests-release/

DCExpos 6 minutes ago
What a wasted trip to Nats Park this morning... and in this heat, too. I go to help Pap clean out his locker and there's a line of 156 others waiting to do the same thing.

@washingnats
I thought Ken Griffey Sr. [before the knee injuries] and Mickey Rivers were the fastest runners I ever saw. But Turner is tops on my list.

Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"'For me I'm getting up there on the all-time closing list and that's important to me. When Theo (Epstein) had me as a young kid in Boston and he wanted to start to me and I said, 'No, I'm a closer, that's what I want to be, and that's who I am.' This is what I envisioned. I envisioned chasing Mariano and I've told Mariano that at many All-Star games, 'I'm coming after you.'" - Jonathan Papelbon, last July

Only 284 to go.

it's funny until the tigers sign him

@KennyDucey
Only time I ever covered Papelbon, he walked into the clubhouse, turned off The Doors & put on a song called "Vote For Trump" at max volume

and you can hear it here!

http://deadspin.com/jonathan-papelbon-subjected-his-teammates-to-terrible-p-1785311344

still better than the doors

forgot abt this graphic from murphs playoff run last yr, prophetic!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR3PczGWwAA-E7a.png:large

Saw the Saturday game vs the Phillies, Nats Park is very pleasant. Really happy to see the Walter Johnson and Josh Gibson statues. Would have liked a little more Expos memorabilia around, but all is forgiven on a Harper home run.

today the mets ibb'd murphy to get to harper

and struck Harper out.

Murphy has mystery leg ailment

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17606837/daniel-murphy-washington-nationals-misses-fourth-straight-game

no he has a "strain in his buttocks"

https://twitter.com/JamalCollier/status/779425512288649216

sheffield_inyourbutt.wav

also i didn't know about this "Harper's injured shoulder" rumor til this week

Ramos has a torn ACL.

@chasehughesCSN
GM Mike Rizzo said Strasburg is unlikely to pitch in NLDS.

"Spencer Kieboom"

wait till you see his younger brother carter kieboom

@jorgeccastillo
Dusty Baker pregame summary: said his team "is a baby-making team" and finished with a Tupac reference.

that's how you get to be a three-time NL manager of the year

@ChrisLingebach
Livan Hernandez will out throw out the ceremonial first pitch for NLDS Game 1, per @VCamillo_Nats. Game 2: Drake and Adam LaRoche. Wow.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3ISX6zWYAEIM0q.jpg:small

decent