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Nats Name Minors Managers for 2021

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A full-fledged press release may come later on, but yesterday the Washington Post reported on the full-season manager lineup for 2021:

  • Rochester (AAA) – Matt LeCroy
  • Harrisburg (AA) – Tripp Keister
  • Wilmington (A+) – Tommy Shields
  • Fredericksburg (A-) – Mario Lisson

LeCroy returns to the managerial ranks after spending 2020 as “quality control coordinator.” This is the second time he’s gone back-and-forth from the majors to the minors in the past few seasons.

Joining him from the front office is Tommy Shields to take the helm at Wilmington. Shields had been the “co-field director in player development” and was active at the Alternate Training Camp last summer.

Tripp Keister moves up to AA after setting records for regular-season wins (423) and games managed (846) for the Potomac/Prince William/Fredericksburg franchise. He has been a manager for the Nationals organization since 2011.

Mario Lisson had been tabbed as the Low-A manager for 2020 after spending two seasons managing the GCL team. The 36-y.o. spent three years (2015, 2017, 2018) of a 14-year pro career with the Nationals, mostly for Harrisburg and Syracuse.

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  2. Tripp Keister is the best developmental manager in the minors.
    Chris B. P-Nats Batboy 2015 – 2019

  3. Rizzo has always been the patient one with all the arm chair holiday ale drinking GMs staring at Christmas trees and late winter signings
    But we know Mr Rizzo plays his cards close to the vest and awaits the best cards discarded in late spring camp or early March .

  4. James Bourque has taken his great ‘stache to the Cub organization. He was a 14th-round pick who found magic during his fourth year as a pro and forever will be a “major leaguer.”

    The only Nats from the 2014 who actually signed who have appeared in the majors are Fedde, Austen Williams, and Bourque, the latter two just with cameos. The Nats low-balled a number of picks that year to pay overslot to Fedde and Reetz, failing to sign 2d-round pick Andrew Suarez in the process.

  5. Lost in the holiday rush
    The lefty once drafted by Nats
    Who ended up with Giants takes his career to Korea .

  6. I’m not an expert, and I would like to see the Nats hit on a couple of players from every draft. But I was surprised when I looked at total WAR from the 2014 and saw how low the yield was. I looked at 10 teams. Here is the WAR and who contributed significantly.

    Phillies 27.2 (Nola 21.7, Hoskins 5.6)
    Mets 14.3 (Conforto 14.6)
    Martlins 7.8 (Brian Anderson 8.7)
    Orioles 5.6 (John Means 5.7)
    Yankees 4.0 (Jordan Montgomery 3.5)
    Nats 1.9 (Erick Fedde 2.2)
    Blue Jays 0.9
    Braves 0.7
    Rays -0.1
    Red Sox -1.3

    So the Mets and Phillies hit on their first rounders. Other than that there are ~4 significant players from the >90 picks from rounds 2 to 10. We’re now 7 years past this draft so I think the number of players that emerge would be very low.

    I’m not sure that counting the guys who make the majors reflects too much on the big club success in drafting. If you are not contending and want to put your draft picks out there to be your replacement players, you can do that.

    Might be interesting if I put in more teams or more years, but maybe this isn’t the way to look at the problem.

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