Nationals Arm Race

Cade Cavalli not yet ready for the big-dance. Photo via Lookout Landing blog Every year i’m excited to start tracking our minor league pitching, and rotations in particular … and a month in, here’s some quick, random, small sample sized, perhaps not fully backed by statistics or sabremetrics thoughts on our rotations of the four minor league full season affiliates. And … [Read more...] about Quick thoughts on the MLB and MiLB rotations one month in

Druw Jones, son of Andruw Jones, is in the running to be the 1-1 pick in the 2022 draft; which team will get him? Photo via espn.com It’s a bit early to think about the Rule IV (aka Amateur) draft, but with our team dead last in the NL and going nowhere, we’re clearly in rebuilding mode, and the draft is the best way to acquire new talent. Over the weekend, MLB … [Read more...] about 2022 Draft order, Bonus Pools, Pick values Finalized

Hey, at least Grey’s looked decent. Photo via WP Small Sample Sizes, arbitrary endpoints, its only April, yeah yeah. As of 4/24/22’s game, in reverse order, here’s our rotation’s last week: Adon on 4/24/22: 4ip, 6hits, 5 runsASanchez on 4/23/22: 4 1/3ip, 6hits, 4 runsCorbin on 4/22/22: 1 1/3ip, 7hits, 3walks, 7runs.Rogers on 4/21/22: 4 1/3ip, 6hits, 4 runs.Fedde on … [Read more...] about The Rotation is worse than even I thought possible

So, BA issued an “update” to its top 30 prospect lists for teams this week. See https://www.baseballamerica.com/teams/1012/washington-nationals/organizational/ for our “new” list. per BA’s site, this update is… “With the minor league season beginning, we have updated our Top 30 prospect rankings for every major league club. These new rankings now include international … [Read more...] about Baseball America “updates” its Nats top 30 and 1st week impressions

Armando Cruz gets high props with this list. Photo via talknats.com Even though the 2022 season has started, we’re still seeing pundit Prospect ranking lists trickle in. In fact, we still havn’t seen several major shops’ Nats list at this point, so we’ll continue doing these posts as they arrive. Today, Prospectdigest.com and its lead pundit Joseph Werner released his … [Read more...] about ProspectDigest Nats top 10 released