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Is a Nats Park tuneup in our future? Here is my exclusive interview with Nats head of Business @jasonsinnarajah that discusses that and more federalbaseball.com/washingt…
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The Marlins broadcast was absolutely stunned by James Wood's insane opposite field home run last night
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You can see Davey lecturing him at the end of the video for watching it to long lol. Good to see our manager is focused on the important things with the team 1-6 haha
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A couple weeks ago Dylan Crews was hitting .106 and I wanted him sent down. Now Crews looks like the all world player he was at LSU and making me look like an idiot federalbaseball.com/2025/4/2…
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If DJ Herz isn’t in the rotation, we riot
Projecting the @Nationals #OpeningDay lineup and rotation.
ALT Lineup 1. CJ Abrams, SS 2. Dylan Crews, RF 3. James Wood, LF 4. Nathaniel Lowe, 1B 5. Josh Bell, DH 6. Luis García Jr., 2B 7. Keibert Ruiz, C 8. José Tena, 3B 9. Jacob Young, CF Pictured: James Wood wearing a white Washington Nationals jersey and red batting helmet.
ALT Rotation 1. MacKenzie Gore, LHP 2. Jake Irvin, RHP 3. Michael Soroka, RHP 4. Mitchell Parker, LHP 5. Trevor Williams, RHP Pictured: MacKenzie Gore wearing a dark blue Washington Nationals jersey and a dark blue cap.
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Alex Call simply needs to play every day. Whether that is LF, RF or DH, he needs to be in the lineup federalbaseball.com/2025/5/8…
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Hearing reports that Ryan Zimmerman is being brought into the fold to be an assistant hitting coach. Have to wonder how hot Darnell Coles’ seat is
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Darnell Coles is really a symbol of the complacency that has taken over this organization. Like what has he done to prove that he is the right guy for the job of being the hitting coach?
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They have to consider sending Crews to AAA for a mental reset. He just looks lost up there
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Good Lord man. This organization was so far behind the times. Time for Paul Toboni to introduce this organization to baseball in the 2020’s
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Wood and Darnell Coles figuring out what was wrong after 3 months
After homering last night, James Wood said he felt like he's been opening up too early and wanted to finish his swing (especially on breaking pitches).
He just launched his 30th homer to dead center on a slider over the heart of the plate. I'd say his adjustments are working.
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James Wood is the next Nationals star and we have to keep him around. We already have enough former Nats stars in the NL East federalbaseball.com/2025/4/2…
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Congrats on a great career Wilson! The Buffalo was such a fan favorite in DC. Chanting his name during his walk up song was always such a blast
Wilson Ramos puso fin a su carrera como jugador.
Se retira luego de 12 temporadas en MLB y 11 en la LVBP.
Fue a dos Juegos de Estrellas y ganó un Bate de Plata.
Recibió cuatro No-Hitters, así como también un juego de 20 ponches.
¡Gracias por todo, Búfalo!
#ElExtrabase⚾️🇻🇪
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I get frustrated sometimes when Nationals fans act like a lack of spending is the only reason this team has been bad. Sure, it is part of the issue, but the lack of player development and bad drafting has been just as big of a problem.
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3.5 years later, I think it is time to call the Nationals return in the Scherzer/Turner trade a dud federalbaseball.com/2025/2/2…
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Random thought but this team misses Jesse Winker’s passion and energy. He wouldn’t have put up with this
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Selling the team just seems like the best path forward for all parties at this point
The Nats are sinking in debt per reports. Revenue is 4th lowest in all of baseball. Not a good combination. talknats.com/2025/04/30/the-…
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Every time you think the 2025 Washington Nationals have hit rock bottom, they pick up their shovels and keep digging federalbaseball.com/2025/7/2…
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Cade Cavalli looks ready to take either Williams or Parker's rotation spot. 3 scoreless with 6 K's so far
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James Wood can’t be in the lineup for the next couple games at a bare minimum. Every at bat is just draining what little confidence he still has
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Dylan Crews is a career .190 hitter and is now 0 for his first 18 to start the season….
Dylan hit .426 in 2023 while at LSU…..He hit .355 in single A that same year.
Dylan held the bat in his interossei muscles at LSU and early on in his pro career….
Dylan now holds the bat with the flexor digitorum superficialis of his right hand and the flexor digitorum of his left hand….
There are several differences in the mechanics of each swing but none bigger than the spacing between his arms at launch as well as at extension
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Dylan Crews needs to be taken out of the firing line. Triple-A is where he will be able to make the necessary adjustments federalbaseball.com/2025/4/1…
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They will never make me hate you Anthony Rendon federalbaseball.com/2025/3/1…
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The Washington Nationals rebuild is stuck in the mud. They have core pieces, but the rest of the roster is still so far away federalbaseball.com/2025/5/1…
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Davey Martinez’s lack of fire after the struggling Dylan Crews got screwed by the ump really stood out to me, so I wrote about it federalbaseball.com/2025/5/1…
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At this point, I am not even sure spending big money this offseason would be a good idea. You would have to massively overpay to bring anyone decent in because nobody would want to come here. We also just need to focus on building a functional baseball operation
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I totally understand where people like this are coming from. However, I can’t stand this narrative. You don’t need a big budget to build a good bullpen. Rizzo simply did a bad job building the bullpen, simple as that
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The Nationals need a new hitting coach, and frankly the Darnell Coles era should have ended a while ago federalbaseball.com/2025/5/3…
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Per @fangraphs a big SEC program is/was attempting to court Elijah Green to play football
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Jim Hickey and Darnell Coles are really still here. Unless he is not allowed to, which is very possible, this is a big black mark on Mike DeBartolo's resume
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The Nationals are a Low IQ team and pretty consistently have been in the Davey Martinez era
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I think I can say now that this is officially my least favorite Nationals team of all time. Only redeeming parts of the team are now not playing well either
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The Marlins have half the talent but double the baseball IQ and acumen. But remember guys, it is never coaching
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Eli Willits is officially a member of the Nationals organization and he took a big under-slot deal federalbaseball.com/2025/7/1…
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The old Davey would have gone crazy there. This version of Davey just feels checked out
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The Washington Nationals have a bullpen problem that extends beyond the big league level. Mike Rizzo can’t seem to find any relievers, even for the triple a team federalbaseball.com/2025/5/8…
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Mike Rizzo has utterly failed this team with the historically bad bullpen he has built. Not the first time he has done this either
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I am excited for James Wood, Eli Willits and Landon Harmon starting in the 2032 All-Star game
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The Nationals need a disciplinarian as their next manager. These guys have gotten away with way too much
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23rd ranked farm this deep in the rebuild is disastrous and why changes needed to be made in the front office
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Jacob Young and Robert Hassell keeping Dylan Crews off his natural position will never not tick me off
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Just looking at the regression of the core guys through the season, it is pretty obvious that the coaching staff and entire front office needs to be torn to the studs. They need a GM/POBO from outside the organization. What was left behind is rotten
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I'm not buying it until I see it happen. Too many false promises by ownership and the front office lately
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New GM is going to have to rebuild the rebuild. A lot of the guys in the “young core” just don’t have the goods
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Eli Willits knows what he needs to do to improve. If he puts on some strength, there are no holes in his game
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Wood is going to have to make some massive adjustments to reach his undoubtedly giant ceiling as a player
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Going into 2026 with Keibert Ruiz as the starting catcher would be an unserious decision federalbaseball.com/2025/6/8…
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With a non-tender imminent, it might be time to pull the plug on the Nathaniel Lowe experiment and roll with some younger guys
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Nationals baseball won’t be the same next year with the retirement of legend Bob Carpenter. federalbaseball.com/2025/3/2…
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Franny could spot Cavalli tipping his pitches from the press box but I guess Hickey and Doolittle couldn't
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So Rizzo just rolled back all the progress the organization had made on analytics this season?
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I interviewed the greatest catcher in Nats history Wilson Ramos. In one of his first interviews after retirement, he reflected on his career and time in DC federalbaseball.com/2025/2/1…
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I got the chance to talk to @scorebook_bob who reminisced about his great career in an interview I will never forget federalbaseball.com/general/…
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Elijah Green is a special athlete who needs to learn how to hit. He seems like a great kid and I really hope he can figure it out federalbaseball.com/2025/2/1…
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If DeBartolo lets Darnell Coles finish out the season, that should disqualify him from being the full time GM
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The Nationals offense getting next to nothing going against Erick Fedde, Andre Pallante and so far Miles Mikolas is a massive red flag
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Always love when your manager throws the players directly under the bus. In fact it isn’t even under the bus, he is throwing them on the train tracks. Totally unacceptable behavior and awful leadership by a weak man
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If the Nationals don’t add another high leverage reliever, it will blow up their season before it even starts federalbaseball.com/2025/2/5…
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Would be nice if CJ Abrams had a hitting coach that could help him stop the bleeding and fix his swing
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Really looks like this offseason was a big swing and a miss from both Mike Rizzo and ownership
Also in today’s story: Nats’ offseason hitting acquisitions have hit .211 with a .637 OPS.
Their pitching acquisitions have allowed a .287 batting average with an .829 OPS.
There is reason to believe these numbers improve moving forward, but that’s where they stand so far.
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Don't be surprised if there are a lot of breakouts in the minors next year. Even getting the player development to become average would be such an improvement for these guys
You want your mind-blown about player development in the #Nats system:
“I was trying to figure out the swing and everything else,” Seaver King said of his time with Wilmington and Harrisburg, “but at the end of the day, like Kevin McGonigle told me: ‘It's never the swing. It's always pitches and timing and all those things.’ So he kind of simplified it for me today — and you know, it worked.”
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Of the 10 bullpens with the lowest ERA's, four of them cost less than the Nationals bullpen. You can build a bullpen on a budget if you know what you are doing
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So Konnor Pilkington has just been chilling in Rochester, carving up AAA this whole time? federalbaseball.com/2025/7/2…
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