This week, the Washington Nationals announced its 2025 Minor League Awards:
- Hitter – OF-IF Phillip Glasser
- Pitcher – RHP Riley Cornelio
- Defensive Player – Christhian Vaquero
- Baserunner – Seaver King
- “Nationals Way” – Andrew Pinckney
I am a little shocked that their picks aligned so closely with mine. I’m not surprised in the least that they figured out a way to be both specious and mendacious to help prop up, as predicted in my previous post
I can totally envision the Nats naming someone like Seaver King to distract from their disappointing production… just like they did with Elijah Green last year
Ok, maybe I got the category wrong, but the underlying point is not. Thing is, this isn’t bragging. Predicting the Nats will do something tone-deaf is “Dog Bites Man” not “Ted Cruz Said Something Intelligent About Free Speech.”
And make no mistake: Seaver King did do his best imitation of Tim Raines this year. But as the James Whitcomb Riley poem goes, “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
NATS NAME NEW BASEBALL OPS PRESIDENT
Yesterday, the news broke that the Nats are about to hire away Red Sox assistant general manager Paul Toboni as the new President of Baseball Operations.
How this affects the minors remains to be seen. The word is that the Nats are still planning to hire a GM, effectively splitting apart the two jobs held concurrently by Mike Rizzo. More to come, but we can only hope that if this is true, he’ll bring along some of his colleagues and break up the band that’s been resting on 2019 for the past four years.