Nationals Arm Race

On 4/5/22, because for some weird reason AAA started 3 days before the rest of the minors, we got the Rochester roster announcement. Then, on 4/8/22, we got the other three full season affiliate roster announcements (click here for Harrisburg, Wilmington, Fredericksburg). H/T to Luke Erickson and nationalsprospects.com for these links. After several hours of furious XLS … [Read more...] about Full Season Affiliate roster Analysis

Soto may be the sole bright spot for the 2022 season. Photo via nj.com Short version of this post: we are going to be absolutely awful this year. Longer Version…. At the end of Spring Training, the 2022 Nats are heading into battle with a 28-man roster that breaks down like the following: 4 NRIs signed to minor league deals this past off-season (as per the most … [Read more...] about 2022 Nats Season preview

Maikel Franco makes the team as an NRI and will start at 3B. Photo via nbcsports.com Thanks to the compressed Spring Training in 2022, we never did the navel gazing “which NRI may make the team?” after the team announced all its NRIs and MLFA signings. But, now that the dust has settled, we did want to identify the NRIs and note which of them actually did make the team … [Read more...] about Spring Training 2022 NRI Disposition

Vaquero is here, and here to stay. Photo via TalkNats.com In our continuing series of reviewing/reacting/criticizing Nats prospect lists as they’re released, today we got a big one. The MLBpipeline.com team (which includes senior prospect analysts Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo, and Sam Dykstra) has released their updated top 30 rankings for our system. Here’s the links to … [Read more...] about MLBPipeline Nats top 30 Prospects

After “losing” the last two CBA negotiations, the player’s union was in a tough spot. They’ve already let the proverbial camel’s nose into the tent (with respect to the salary cap), and they knew they couldn’t completely get rid of it, so they leveraged what they could to get what they could. Here’s some of the key parameters and thresholds the two sides agreed upon on … [Read more...] about New CBA Analysis