Category Archives: Feature

Nats stick with Luis Garcia and option top prospect Carter Kieboom

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Andrew Lang

In shocking but never surprising news, the Nats sent their top prospect Carter Kieboom to the Washington Nationals’ minor league camp at the Alternate Training Site in Fredericksburg today to make room for Sean Doolittle who was activated from the … Continue reading →

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Baseball America’s Top 100 rankings mid-season update; Luis Garcia up-to-date!

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

There is a new mid-season update from Baseball America that has Carter Kieboom ranked as their 17th top prospect, and Luis Garcia as their 100th top prospect. No other Nats players made the list as expected. As always on that … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: Sterling Sharp makes a sharp turn to finally get to Nats Park!

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Leading up to the potential Rule-5 players who could be added to 40-man rosters, Sao Magnifico wrote, “If the Nats don’t protect 24-year-old hurler Sterling Sharp, it would qualify as a genuine shock.” He was right, and we were shocked when … Continue reading →

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Dakota Bacus is older than 12 players on the Nats roster and age won’t define this rookie reliever!

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Andrew Lang

Living in Moline, Illinois in the off-season puts Dakota Bacus in a league of his own. He is the only active professional baseball player in that town. Moline is on the extreme western side of the state along the Iowa … Continue reading →

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BBRef values Tanner Rainey & Erick Fedde in the team’s Top 4!

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

If you use BaseballReference.com (BBRef) you will certainly see their rankings have some interesting names as the most valuable on the Nats. Not surprisingly, Max Scherzer and Juan Soto were their № 1 and № 2 on their list. What may surprise … Continue reading →

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A family tradition in baseball dating back to the 1800’s has ended at the hands of COVID

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Andrew Lang

In the middle of a season, an MLB debut is usually a spur of the moment callup caused by an injury or a demotion. Some debuts are a factor of making the Opening Day roster like Jake Noll, and others … Continue reading →

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The #Nats 2020 bullpen standouts aren’t who you thought they would be!

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

We got to a point where we would just say, “All bullpens are bad” and then when your bullpen is actually good — you just don’t what to say. When the Nats PR department flashed a stat to the media during … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: Juan Soto is back and he showed up with his family, sort of!

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Andrew Lang

If you watched Juan Soto‘s 2020 debut, you probably noticed the foam cutouts of his father, mother, brother, sister, and uncles in the first three rows of Nationals Park in section 106. Soto got Fathead to create these custom cutouts … Continue reading →

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For the Nats and the Scherzers, the new normal is more than just baseball

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Annie Dineen

At last, baseball stadiums aren’t dark. At last, the cracks of bats and the thwunks of gloves again beat in rhythm with the beeps of our kitchen timers and the clangs of dinner cutlery. For the first time in 281 … Continue reading →

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A week of roster moves for the #Nats is on the agenda!

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

Fifteen days go by quickly as the season reaches that mark on Friday and as such rosters by rule must be pared down to 28-players from the current thirty unless MLB agrees to continue with the larger rosters which seems … Continue reading →

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