The Nats Thread

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

vansmack wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
i don't get it

Blaming management when an individual doesn't get their job done.

i mean, i'd also blame the walking corpse that is adam laroche, drew storen for hanging that pitch, anthony rendon for not charging that bunt, the pitchers mound at giants stadium, mccatty for not having a mound visit before gio walks the first run home, cabrera for getting kicked out of the game and sticking us with espinosa for the rest of the game, and the umpire for squeezing zim in the 9th.

but the pivotal moment was pulling zimm. there was no coming back after that.

What if all those other plays went the Nats way? Would pulling Zimm still have lost the series?

probably? baseball is a funny game.

Nope. Zimm. That was it. They lost it right there.

at least Harper had a breakout post-season…. maybe he's over the hump…imagine if he kept that up next year?

hutch wrote:
at least Harper had a breakout post-season…. maybe he's over the hump…imagine if he kept that up next year?

He was on pace for, let's say… 8 homers in the playoffs? If they went all the way. That's huge. If they won all the games I mean.

He won't.

He'll stub his toe on some artificial turf, miss 40 games, and get like 43 rbi in the 110 games he does play.

hutch wrote:
at least Harper had a breakout post-season…. maybe he's over the hump…imagine if he kept that up next year?

I don't think Hunter Strickland was going to pitch to Harper again, so I'm not sure it's fair to say that he would have kept up that pace.

Since 1995, only five teams had a lower on-base percentage than the Nationals did this year in the NLDS. Just two had a lower batting average.

Shemp wrote:
Since 1995, only five teams had a lower on-base percentage than the Nationals did this year in the NLDS. Just two had a lower batting average.

Was one of the lower batting acg teams the Giants?

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

Shemp wrote:
Since 1995, only five teams had a lower on-base percentage than the Nationals did this year in the NLDS. Just two had a lower batting average.

Was one of the lower batting acg teams the Giants?

Reds 2010 and Dodgers 1996

Shemp wrote:

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

Shemp wrote:
Since 1995, only five teams had a lower on-base percentage than the Nationals did this year in the NLDS. Just two had a lower batting average.

Was one of the lower batting acg teams the Giants?

Reds 2010 and Dodgers 1996

Dang. Where were the Giants? They weren't much better than us.

Nationals assistant GM announces he is leaving the organization

Should I apply?

vansmack wrote:
Nationals assistant GM announces he is leaving the organization

Should I apply?

Heck yeah!!

Mike (Long Island)

How concerned are you that Bryce Harper may never exhibit enough emotional maturity for people to give him whatever credit he may be due? He may be one of the best arguments against home schooling ever (perhaps a little association with people other than his dad might have helped him)

David Schoenfield  (4:36 PM)

He's 21.

^^^ He turned 22 a coupls days ago. The whole "He's immature" thing is so stupid. He's still INSANELY young. In the entire Nationals organization, I believe there is only 1 or 2 people way down in their farm systems that are younger. That's so crazy.

Nats decline Laroche and Soriano options…. pick up Span…

Does this mean they are moving Zim to first?

Wasn't that the plan?

hutch wrote:
Does this mean they are moving Zim to first?

Yep.

Andrew (NY) [via mobile]

Are you surprised by mike rizzos strange unwillingness to lock up the nats collection of phenomenal young players? Rendon….Harper….Strasburg….JZimm….Desmond……I feel like if this was another GM, at least half those guys would've signed cheap extensions early on. Are we looking at a mass exodus over next 2 years?

David Schoenfield  (1:47 PM)

Good question. I don't have a good answer. A Nationals beat guy who is more connected would know, but I guess I can only suggest this: How many of those are Scott Boras clients? Boras guys don't sign extensions, so that's probably one reason why.


Let me answer that for you, Dave:

Rendon (Boras)
Harper (Boras)
Strasburg (Boras)
JZimm (SFX)
Desmond (Sports One)

i wouldnt call it unwillingness. as you said, a bunch of boras guys there so thats no small task even bringing the subject up (though id love to see rendon signed longterm asap), and rizzo tried with desmond and zimmermann.

the time when he could have signed desmond to a really cheap extension was before he solidifed himself as an elite talent, so its hard to fault rizzo for not getting it done in that case. if hed locked him up for years and desmond never reached the next level rizzo would get panned for the move.

but i do think he'll pay up for desmond now, just cuz theres really no other choice. the nats have young pitchers almost ready if they lose zimmermann but who fills the void desmond (even with his flaws) leaves?

im seeing zimmermann to the cubs talk starting to heat up

rizzo's moves tend to come out of nowhere so idk if this holds any water but the cubs have some middle infield prospects the nats could use. we'll see