News and Notes on the Nationals Minors since 2009
My track record of being a day too early for a news peg remains intact… If you’re looking for validation that “Next Man Up” is Carter Kieboom—and the one after that is Luis Garcia—you’ll be pleased. If you’re thinking ahead to the depth necessary to sustain next summer’s injuries to the starting pitching, then you …
Somehow, I managed to get this deep into the offseason without having to do this placeholder. The battle between the billionaire owners of MLB and the millionaire owners of MiLB has certainly helped. It’s still a little too early to release the finalized 2020 Watchlist. Maybe I’m just being overly cautious, but the Nats do …
Just when it looked like that perhaps we’d hear nothing more about the contentious negotations between MLB and MiLB over the former’s contraction plan, two articles surfaced last night. Like last call at small-town bar on a Tuesday night, it ain’t pretty. Josh Norris of Baseball America has the story on MiLB’s response to MLB’s …
Sterling Sharp the first Nats player taken in the MLB phase since 2013
| NEWLY AVAILABLE | PASSED ON LAST YEAR |
SELECTED FROM NATS MLB PHASE, 2010-2018 |
RETURNED 2010-2018 |
| Banks | Reetz | M. Martinez | |
| Upshaw | Wiseman | B. Meyers | B. Meyers |
| Sundberg | Sagdal | Komatsu | Komatsu |
| Howard | A. Lee | Rosenbaum | Rosenbaum |
| Williamson | Peterson | Kobernus | Kobernus |
| Howell | Brinley | Nieto | |
| Sharp | Pantoja |
Draft picks only listed; IFAs who who debuted 2015 or earlier are also eligible.
I think the point here should be obvious: The odds are no one will get selected (Nieto was selected in 2013) and if he is selected, he will probably be returned.
The Nats have placed their bets on Stephen Strasburg for the next seven years (that deafening silence is the sound of Thomas Boswell admitting he was wrong about The Shutdown). Is his replacement in this list? Probably not, which may be why we had such light turnout with the vote; just eight ballots including mine: …
Folks are itching to get to this one, so let’s get this party started. Like the bats, you can send your Top 10 list to enfieldmass-top10arms[at]yahoo[dot]com (link will open your preferred email client) or post them in the comments. Once we have enough votes, I’ll weight ’em in reverse order (#1 = 10 points, #2 …
As it was a year ago, there was a clear consensus on the top three bats. Even the WaPo beat writers could name them. After that, it was like telling apart Hollywood’s leading men named Chris. Including the honorable mentions, a total of 27 players were named on the ten ballots. After the dust settled, …
Who will be next year’s “I informed you thusly” in the comments? At the risk of jeopardizing folks’ Cyber Monday plans, I present the annual exercise of determining who will the Nats trade away the ten most viable position players in the Washington farm system. This is the dealio… Send me your Top 10 list …
No trip to the Crystal Coast this year for Turkey Day, which is making me feel like Boomer. But overall, and in the big picture, things are doing okay. It’ll be five years at my current job next month. Twenty-six years since I met my wife in January. My oldest son just turned 20, my …