Nationals Arm Race

Andry Lara in AAA now, a long ways from whatever this field was. Photo via mlb.com Now that we’re a full turn through the rotations of all the full season squads, I thought i’d kick off the monthly series of rotation reviews with an “Opening day” rotation review, comparing it to how we ended last year and talking about who’s where, who’s surprisingly up or down where i … [Read more...] about Full Season 2025 Opening Day Rotation Discussion

Doyle pushing for 1-1. Photo via his Twitter account. Here’s our fourth check-in on the 1-1 candidates. We’ve started to get some more draft content from the typical sources now that we’re through “Prospect Season” and past opening day. The consensus on this draft so far from pundits seems to be this: there’s no clear-cut #1 overall pick, but the draft itself is … [Read more...] about Eight Weeks into Spring Season 1-1 Candidate Check In

Andrew Alvarez got the opening day start for AAA Rochester. Photo via Fred Nats Today on April 1st, we got the three remaining full-season rosters for our affiliates. This is not an April Fools Prank Here’s quick links to the data (though Luke Erickson has already done a great job of distilling the information for us at this post for AAA and this post for the other … [Read more...] about Quick Reactions to Four Full Season Rosters

Richmond Native Verlander remains the career leader of Opening day starts. Photo unk via rumorsandrants.com Now that the 2025 Opening Day is past us, and I’ve updated the XLS for this year’s starters and done some housecleaning of now-retired starters, here’s some Opening day starter trivia for you. Here’s a link to the Opening day starter xls, which is also updated … [Read more...] about Opening Day Starter Trivia for 2025 plus Observations on the state of Starting Pitching

Sorry MacKenzie, you can’t win ’em all! Photo wikipedia Welcome to the 2025 Baseball Season! Well, it isn’t every day you get a 6ip, 1hit, 0run, 13K, 0BB effort from a starter and lose, but that’s what the Nats managed to do yesterday in their home and season opener against the hated Phillies. MacKenzie Gore certainly carved through the Phillies lineup, each of whom … [Read more...] about Nats Opener History and Trivia updated for 2025