Author Archives: DonH

Use the BaseballSavant Site to Review any Nats Game

Posted on January 28, 2023 by DonH

The BaseballSavant site provides an incredible array of data and graphs. Virtually anything you want to know can be found there. I had frankly forgotten how useful it is until I stumbled upon it yesterday looking for information on Cade … Continue reading →

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The Kids Really Will Love it.

Posted on January 21, 2023 by DonH

On Thursday afternoon, Deuces, WTP and I visited the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy to deliver the goodies we were able to collect at the end of 2022 as described in a previous post —  The Kids Do Love It – … Continue reading →

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World Series Years

Posted on January 18, 2023 by DonH

This is a test and a work in progress for details about each game in the 1924 and 2019 Washington Baseball Teams Game Game 1 Just some text about this game in 1924 and 2019. Game 2 Just some text … Continue reading →

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What are your hopes for pleasant surprises for the Nats?

Posted on January 17, 2023 by DonH

When Ghost has writer’s block, it is time for a DPW (Desinated Pinch Writer). This will be short and sweet.  Here are three positive Hope Fors that you can comment on.

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What Is Your Favorite Baseball Story

Posted on January 14, 2023 by DonH

Time to have conversations about things more pleasant than how many games the Nationals will lose in 2023. So we’ve collected a few stories from some regulars to get the conversation started. Please comment with a favorite baseball story – … Continue reading →

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Point-CounterPoint – The Nats Offensive Woes

Posted on January 7, 2023 by DonH

It does not take any analytics to conclude that the Nats gave up too many runs and did not score nearly enough runs in 2022, or for that matter in 2021 also. So I decided to look at the stats … Continue reading →

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Nationals Batters Swing and Miss Rates

Posted on November 30, 2022 by DonH

Most every batter wants to only swing at pitches he can hit. Clearly some are much, much, much better at it than others. Thanks to a comment posted recently by WarningTrackPower I was able to add logic to determine if … Continue reading →

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The Kids Do Love It – Donate Your Unused RCR Points

Posted on November 29, 2022 by DonH

We are repeating the initiative we started last year, collecting items from the RCR program to donate to the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy that supports scholar athletes from under-served communities. This is a collaborative effort of TalkNats and two FaceBook … Continue reading →

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Rant of a Senators fan
Subtitle: Winning the argument with your crazy Orioles fans relatives

Posted on November 23, 2022 by DonH

Given the issue with MASN impacting the sale of the Nats, Steve M. and I thought it might be a good discussion to repost my article from July of 2016 with a few updates since history changed a few previous … Continue reading →

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Who Are You Rooting For to Win the World Series

Posted on October 28, 2022 by DonH

https://poll.fm/11229992 As a fan of the Nationals, who are you rooting for to win the WS? The two teams are among (at least among Nats fans) are, or should be, the most hated. And yes, the pejorative spellings of the … Continue reading →

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