Category Archives: Feature

2020 BBWAA Awards Finalists revealed and Juan Soto does not make the Final-3!

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

2020 BBWAA AWARDS FINALISTS REVEALED Winners Will Be Announced November 9 – 12 Exclusively on MLB Network When the major award categories were revealed, it was not a shock that Juan Soto was not in the Top-3 of candidates for … Continue reading →

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Free agency 2020/2021 has officially started!

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

It feels like a high stakes game of musical chairs when it comes to — should you take a chair deal when the phone rings with an offer or keep circling around and hope the phone rings again and again with … Continue reading →

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Nats graduate 2 top-prospects, and the Nats new top prospect is: Jackson Rutledge

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Two more Nats prospects graduated to rookie status in 2020 when they passed over the  130 at-bat threshold that defined their career in terms of officially categorizing them as rookies. Both Carter Kieboom and Luis Garcia are off the 2021 … Continue reading →

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The one-year anniversary of the “CLANG” that led to the World Series championship

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Can you believe it has been exactly one year since the Nationals won the World Series! Savor it, enjoy it. They do not happen often — even when you spend so much money that you blow through the CBT cap … Continue reading →

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We are officially in the off-season and the free agent clock has started!

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

“Next year STARTS NOW” was how the tweet read from the Washington Nationals official Twitter feed moments after the last out was recorded in the World Series last night which advanced the clock officially to the off-season. The free agency … Continue reading →

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The baseball economics for 2021 will create the largest drop in baseball payrolls in history!

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Last year, free agency went better than projected for several players like Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg, and Anthony Rendon who all cashed in on their Powerballs and each pocketed well over $200 million. COVID-19 threw a wrench into the cog … Continue reading →

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“The door was never closed” for Kevin Long, and he is back!

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

When you are the youngest National League player to ever win a batting crown, you must thank your hitting coach. That is exactly what Juan Soto did with a bear hug that lifted hitting coach Kevin Long off the ground … Continue reading →

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Our top-10 priorities were set back in September, and we check Josh Harrison off of the list!

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Washington Nationals have clear priorities for next year, and we took a deep dive into a Top-1o. We kind of rolled more names into the list, and sure, things changed quickly when manager Dave Martinez opted to make changes … Continue reading →

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Priority #3, the #Nats are in need of a #4 starting pitcher!

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

As we work in priority order, we look at what we set as the third priority for this Washington Nationals team which is the spot that Anibal Sanchez held in the starting rotation during the 2019 and 2020 seasons. For … Continue reading →

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The Nationals name Jim Hickey as their new pitching coach

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

With Paul Menhart‘s spot as the pitching coach available, it did not take Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez an extended period to fill that spot. Reportedly, Martinez will go with a pitching coach he was very familiar with from their … Continue reading →

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