Category Archives: Analysis

This is the Jewish holy week with the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) next week. While we do not know CJ Abrams religious beliefs, he seemed to atone for his eighth inning sin of not running out a 66.7 mph … Continue reading →

The “B” word is defined as “losing a game by five or more runs”, and more commonly known as a BLOWOUT. For shortstop CJ Abrams, he had not been a part of one of those games until last night with … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago, there were some Washington Nationals fans who wanted to send CJ Abrams packing to some farm, far away. He was hitting just .207 and looked kind of lost out there. Then all of a sudden he had … Continue reading →

Let me set the stage for you. The Nationals were winning 2-0 in the third inning in Philadelphia after Joey Meneses blasted a 2-run homer in the top of the inning on Saturday night. Erick Fedde wasn’t pitching well but had … Continue reading →

On the heels of last night’s loss in St. Louis (and how much of the blame we can ascribe to Kyle Finnegan not pitching in a week), I thought it might be interesting to resurrect and update an idea for … Continue reading →

At one point in this season the Washington Nationals were on pace for the worst infield defense in baseball history since they started keeping statistics on groundball infield defense. But a simple change at shortstop from Luis Garcia to CJ … Continue reading →

On May 27, the Washington Nationals signed Ildemaro Vargas who was made available as a free agent and stadhed him in Triple-A. The Nats knew what they were getting when they made the transaction: a versatile player capable of playing … Continue reading →

When Ildemaro Vargas was signed as a free agent in May, it did not even make a blip on the radar. A player with 384 career at-bats and a career .600’s OPS before the Nats picked him up as a  … Continue reading →