Jake Bennett the leading prospect to head into the AFL this year. Photo from OSU The 2025 minor league seasons may not entirely be over, but the Arizona Fall League rosters have been released, so let’s take a quick peek at who in the Nationals system has been sent. Typically, the Nats send a hodgepodge of players who fit into one of three categories: Pitchers who … [Read more...] about 2025 AFL Rosters announced
Sept 1 Check-in with our top Prospects
Andrew Alvarez gets the call, bravo. Photo via Nats Here’s the five month check-in with all our top 20 (and some) prospects. This mostly does an August focus on the prospects being mentioned, but sometimes mentions season-long stats, which are as of 9/1/25 as best as possible. This is our prospects as I ranked them prior to the season: If i was to re-rank prospects today … [Read more...] about Sept 1 Check-in with our top Prospects
Nats End of Aug 2025 Rotation Check-In
Susana walks off the mound after injuring his arm. I’m hoping he’s wiping away sweat and not tears. Photo via milb.com This is the 5th monthly review of all our rotations for the 2025, checking in on the latest month’s worth of production and doing some analysis. I popped into baseball-reference.com to start this work, and realized we’re now 30 games under .500. The … [Read more...] about Nats End of Aug 2025 Rotation Check-In
Fun Thought Exercise on Minor League Expansion impact of MLB Expansion
Happy Labor Day weekend! We’ve touched on Expansion a couple times in the past few weeks in this space, and in the comments we’ve talked about a couple of interesting “what-ifs” related to the side effects of Expansion, namely: What happens if we put MLB teams into existing AAA markets? How would two new MLB teams build out their affiliate farm systems? I’ve given … [Read more...] about Fun Thought Exercise on Minor League Expansion impact of MLB Expansion
John Smoltz’s ideas for Expansion are awesome
Hall of Famer and big baseball thinker John Smoltz. Photo via Atlanta Parent We talked about Manfred’s expansion floating last week, and lots of pundits out there are doing the same thought exercises related to where two new teams might pop up (Salt Lake City and Nashville … or maybe Portland and Charlotte), and then how we’d realign to go to an NFL-style 8 division … [Read more...] about John Smoltz’s ideas for Expansion are awesome