News and Notes on the Nationals Minors from the perspective of the fan, sportswriter, and amateur scout
As Baseball America wends its way through its postseason (pre-preseason?) awards, Carter Kieboom became the second National to make one of its Top 20 lists as the #5 prospect for the Eastern League (sorry, no link: paid sub). Given the Durham boys’ penchant for double-dipping, this is likely the first of two appearances for the …
Friday night, the big Nats were eliminated from the N.L. East race with a loss, which amazingly was not in either extra innings or at the hands of the bullpen. Yesterday, despite a combined one-hit shutout, they were mathematically elimniated from the playoffs. Just one year after we were talking about Washington possibly winning 100 …
The Nationals have known for 11 months that they needed to make a deal to stay either in the International League or east of the Mississippi. They did neither. Yesterday afternoon, Washington announced it had signed a two-year PDC with the Fresno Grizzlies, endearing themselves to …Young Republicans without trust funds …Rap Stars who went …
Well, here we are again… its mid-September: the minors are over and for the first time in seven seasons, so are the majors. Sure, there’s some drama about Juan Soto winning the Rookie of the Year Award. There probably shouldn’t be, but the BBWAA has long treated the award as the best “eligible first year” …
After giving away the Mills Cup to the Buies Creek Astros, the P-Nats got a semblance of consolation from the Carolina League with three players named to its 13-player postseason team: Wil Crowe, Ian Sagdal, and Rhett Wiseman. Wil Crowe, who finished second in wins, was named as the League’s pitcher of the year despite …
Rather than declare co-champions as they did a year ago, the Carolina League decided to reduce a season of 140-plus games to one, a coin flip that went the way of the Buies Creek Astros, who defeated the Potomac Nationals 2-1 in 11 innings. As you might expect with the league’s #1 pitching staff facing …
Potomac back to the Carolina League finals for the first time since 2014
The Hillcats hit two HRs in the continuation and a grand slam in Game Four but the two teams split the two games.
Last Night in Woodbridge
Potomac evens it up to turn the CLDS into a best-of-three at home while Auburn is swept out of the NYPL semifinals