Nationals Arm Race

This year begins the next 10 year cycle of arguing about the HoF merits of PED players. Photo via NYPost Its that time of year. Its time to put our two cents in on the Hall of Fame ballot. Past versions of this post: by ballot class: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011. The 2022 class is a transitional one, where we’ll (finally) age off a … [Read more...] about 2022 Class Hall of Fame Post

Andry Lara is rising up the prospect boards. Photo via mlb.com Since I love prospect lists, I’ll write a reaction piece to every Nats prospect list ranking that I see this off-season. What else are we gonna talk about during the lockout? We already saw the Baseball America top 10 list, which I found laughable for a number of reasons. Let’s see how Prospects361 and its … [Read more...] about Prospects361 Nats top 15 released

Evan Lee gets protected; will he be an impact player? Photo via U of Arkansas The 2021 rule-5 prediction season is over. I predicted we’d protect Tim Cate and Donovan Casey as “locks,” then listed several others as possibles, led by Evan Lee. In the end, the team protected Casey and Lee, but not Cate. And then on the even of the annual meetings, the owners locked out the … [Read more...] about Rule-5 Protection Prediction history and existential question: does it matter?

The Athletic’s Evan Drellich is in Irving, Texas, reporting from the final meetings between the owners and the players before the 12/1/21 CBA expiration deadline and subsequent lockout, and he’s come up with some really interesting nuggets. I know the Athletic is behind a paywall; i’ll try to summarize some of the back and forth details, some of which I find pretty … [Read more...] about Final proposals pre Lockout show some interesting CBA negotiation details

Is this the end of the road for Fedde with the Nats? Photo via minorleagueball.com 12/1/21 is the non-tender deadline for this year. It also happens to be “National MLB lockout day” as the existing CBA expires between the owners and players … but for the purposes of this post, we’ll assume that some normal baseball transactions will occur. and because of this uncertainty, … [Read more...] about Nats 2021 Non-Tender Discussion