Category Archives: Feature

Winterfest eve as the World Champs are back in D.C.

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

This year’s Winterfest at Nationals Park is sold-out on Saturday, and it will feel more like Springfest as temperatures in Washington, D.C. will feel like early April. So Play Ball! The World Champion Washington Nationals are back in town! This … Continue reading →

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Best player available works for MLB Draft but does it work for signing free agents?

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

In the last offseason, Patrick Corbin was considered the top pitcher available in free agency. He was not considered the top free agent available, but was the pitching prize for sure. For general manager Mike Rizzo of the Washington Nationals, … Continue reading →

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Last year was quite the year for doing it the #Nats way!

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

We can now say “last year” or “last season” when we refer to the Nats’ World Series 2019 season since the calendar turned to 2020. General manager Mike Rizzo has less than ten days to ink players to get them … Continue reading →

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New Years and the Nats; What a year 2019 was for the Washington Nationals!

Posted on December 31, 2019 by ArVaFan aka Laura Peebles

There was no point in doing New Year’s Resolutions for the Nationals, because they would have all been the same: “Win Another World Series.”

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Laura’s annual Christmas stockings for the Washington Nationals!

Posted on December 24, 2019 by ArVaFan aka Laura Peebles

Ho ho ho home run Ho-wie Kendrick! It is that time of year again, and while the Astros had Cole in their stockings, the Nats got rings in theirs! A tip of the cap to Casey Stern because nobody can … Continue reading →

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Days of Rest – Why Only for Pitchers? Could the Howie system work for Zim?

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Baseball analytics cover most anything you want to analyze including days-of-rest statistics if you can crunch the numbers yourself for position players. If you go to the Baseball-Reference and look at the splits for pitchers, you see their numbers broken … Continue reading →

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The director of the #Nats World Series documentary called it a “remarkable run”

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Andrew Lang

Many of you braved the cold weather a few weeks ago to see the premiere showing of the 2019 World Series documentary from Major League Baseball Productions that debuted to a sold-out crowd of 3,000 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. … Continue reading →

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Rizzo Should Make a Trade for…

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Luke Erickson

The defending World Series Champions were an integral part of two of the three biggest stories to emerge from the 2019 Winter Meetings in San Diego (if you thought the third one was Gerrit Cole, you thought wrong ;-).

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The #Nats have shuffled the deck with their coaches!

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Washington Nationals announced several changes on their coaching staff that includes one new hire and three new roles for existing coaches. Manager Dave Martinez‘s first base coach, Tim Bogar, will be his new bench coach, and he had actually … Continue reading →

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Who’s on third? #Nats still have big decisions to make!

Posted on December 10, 2019 by SaoMagnifico

The Washington Nationals struck quickly on the first full day of the Winter Meetings in San Diego, re-signing World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg to return their all-world rotation from 2019.

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