News and Notes on the Nationals Minors since 2009
In the wake of last year’s teardown at the trade deadline, followed by the announcement of a new sheriff in the player development town, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that the 2022 version of this annual announcement feels a little different. Obviously, with the MLB lockout (make sure you get that right, the …
For the second straight year, the Nationals have gone big, signing Cuban sensation Christian Vaquero for a reported (and record) $4.925M bonus. The Nats 2022 pool was $5,179,700. The 17-y.o. Vaquero, a switch-hitting OF, was ranked #1 by Baseball America and #2 by MLB Pipeline. He’s considered to be a five-tool talent, listed at 6’3″ …
The second transaction update of the 2021-22 offseason just dropped yesterday from the Boys in Durham: RE-SIGNED ● LHP Luis Avilan SIGNED ● RHP Erik Manoah ● 1B Joey Meneses ● 2B Dee Strange-Gordon ● 3B Maikel Franco ● OF Mitch Longo RELEASED ● LHP Sean Nolin ● IF Corban Joseph As is often the case, most of the signs are with an …
MiLB, which is now an arm of MLB, finally got around to releasing its 2021 All-Stars for the Washington system: C – Israel Pineda 1B – K.J. Harrison 2B – Jake Noll SS – Luis García 3B – Jake Alu OF – Daniel Palka OF – Ricardo Méndez OF – Justin Connell RHSP – Cade …
Longtime readers know when they see this post, we’re just trying to prove that the site has not gone dark. Still no transactions from BA, still no organizational All-Star story from MiLB to make fun of (remember when they named Jaron Long the best RHSP in the system?!) As the headline says, I’m in the …
Just a quick post to let you know we’re still here.
I’ve added a couple of pages to the “Road Trips” tab and have begun work on the Watchlist.
I don’t anticipate any transactions anytime soon; MiLB.com has been returning this for more than a month now.
We’re at the mercy of the MLB-MLBPA impasse and it seems fairly obvious that very little will change until either spring training starts or the strike is ended. My money is on spring training.
The next possible thing on my radar is MiLB posting its “Organizational All-Stars,” which will provide us something to laugh at discussion fodder, but that’s it.
We now return you to your early January loathing (pic above)…
I hope folks had a good weekend and didn’t get too wild and crazy for Free Balloon Day yesterday. I had been hoping against hope that maybe I’d have one or two more edits to this, forced by a move, a pickup, or even a minor trade, but I think we’re looking at a slower …
Try as I may, I can’t ignore or deny that this year’s holiday message will be more like 2020 than 2019 – the latter I had been using as a guide for what to post next until about two weeks ago. Chanukkah is more than two weeks past, Winter solstice (and National Short Girl Appreciation …
A year ago I wrote about my wish list for 2021, which in many ways came true: We got a full season of MLB and a nearly full season of MiLB, albeit in ways that were very different: Six-game homestands against a single opponent Every Monday off Heavily weighted schedules with up three dozen games …
Well, that was fun… kind of. For a few weeks there, I was able to walk in my digital 13B’s from Nov-Dec. 2019, but now it appears that we’ve shifted from 2019 mode to 2020 mode. I opted for this keep-the-lights-on post rather than pretend that the signings of Maikel Franco and Dee Strange-Gordon are …