Nationals Arm Race

Three of the main scouting bureaus (MLBPipeline, Baseball America, Fangraphs) have plugged in d the haul from the Soto/Bell deal (and two of them have also added in our draft class), so lets take a quick peek at where our newly acquired players rank. Note: C.J. Abrams has not technically exhausted his rookie status (he has 139PAs but only 125 official At Bats, which is what … [Read more...] about Post-Draft/Post-Trade Prospect Ranking Impacts

It occurred to me, now that the Nats have sold off all their pieces and continued the dismantling of their 2019 championship team … wow, we’ve parted ways with a lot of very expensive players. What would our team look like (in terms of payroll and lineup) had we kept all our big-time FAs over the past few years? Here’s a fun exercise, using 2022’s salaries. C: Yan Gomes: … [Read more...] about What if they’d kept the Band together?

We’re already talking about this in the comments … and I already had this written, assuming we’d make 4-5 trades like we did last summer. But we didn’t, so this is a whole lotta nothing of a post. But i’ll post it anyway. I tried to predict what kind of return we’d get back for all our trade-eligible players a few weeks back. Here’s what we ended up getting back for all … [Read more...] about Nats Trade Deadline Summary

hate to see him go, but you can’t argue with teh return. Photo via NYpost Well, it had to happen. This is the required “hot take” post on the trade return the Nats got in exchange for sending two months of Josh Bell plus 2 full years of Juan Soto to the San Diego Padres. Per mlbtraderumors, which is doing a good job following everyone’s tweeting and reporting: Padres … [Read more...] about Juan (and Josh) are gone

In my 2022 draft class review, I went through a rough guess as to how I thought the bonus calculations would go, and how many of our 20 picks would sign. Lets see how my predictions went, now that we’ve gotten all the bonus figures publicized for our 19 draftees. For a complete list of the 2022 draft classes, see the Draft Tracker and specifically the “2022 Draft Class” … [Read more...] about Nats 2022 Draft class Signing Bonus Analysis