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Ian Desmond at the half
After writing about Washington's infielders and largely ignoring him, I knew I'd have to turn back to the subject of hyped Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond.
5 things to look for in the All-Star game
With the All-Star game just a day away, here at The Nats Blog we will take a sneak peak at the top five stories that we feel our readers should be interested in.
1. This time, it counts
The last few years, Bud Selig has allowed the winning league of the All-Star game maintain home field advantage i...
Rotation Round Up: July
This Stephen Strasburg character is pretty good at pitching. He's got the lowest xFIP (xFIP is, in my opinion, the best free pitching metric available. It appropriately weights events under a pitcher's control-like Ks and Bbs-and ignores events not under a pitcher's control-ERs and, controversially, HRs.) in the Majors and, not surprisingly, was the best Nationals pitcher in June and it's looking like the same will be true ...
Predicting the Nationals Playoff Chances with Accuscore 7/12
As we do each week of the season with the help of Accuscore, it is time to see how last weeks games impacted the division playoff race. The Braves and Phillies are carrying the momentum going into the All-Star break, while the Mets are just happy to stay away from the ballpark for a few days after suffering some setbacks in the division race thanks to a series loss at home by Atlanta. The Phillies swept the Reds in four games to put their chances up t...
Only 5th worst?
Come on. Lucky me I listen on the radio. Got no problems with Slowes and Jageler. Unlucky me I spend most of my radio time listening to this thing.
Bumgarner Blows by Nationals
In the top of the first inning, Nationals' starter Livan Hernandez gave up a hit to Aaron Rowand, walks to Aubrey Huff and Buster Posey, and a single to Travis Ishikawa. Just like that, in the span of five batters, the San Francisco Giants found themselves ahea...
Two bad bets
We keep talking about this but it is going to be the biggest topic of the second half of the year. The Nats have a choice to make. Make a play now or make a play later. (OK - let's be 100% truthful - there's always a chance to make a play NOW - but that involves a very large financial commitment and while the Nats have added payroll I don't think they are ready to be Top 5 anytime soon) We can argue either way but the truth of it is both choices are bad bets. The Nats are not likely to be ...
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