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Wait. Consecutive posts in February? Before the full start of Spring Training?
Despite nearly daily analysis of MILB trade transactions … Levi Jordan is news to me.
MLB interns went back to school?
James Colyer Bay Area guy
Cal State Hayward on his resume
Further up the highway
Sac State joining the MAC conference .
Teams will travel to Midwest on jetson space pods with Elroy as mascot .
I’m showing my age
Mr Roberts great Broadway show and movie with
James Cagney Henry Fonda
William Powell
Jack Lemmon
I dare the stadium employee in charge of FCL sky box audio to stadium
Cue the audio of James Cagney yelling out
Mister Robert’s !!
Yes or no
Does Travis Stehle make AA in spring ?
Some other stuff:
02/13/26 RHP James Colyer assigned to FCL Nationals.
02/12/26 FCL Nationals released C Helder Rosario.
02/12/26 FCL Nationals released C Agustin Marcano.
02/10/26 3B Wyatt Henseler retired.
02/05/26 Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP James Colyer to a minor league contract.
quick decision to hang it up for Wyatt Henseler. the young man has a degree from Penn so I trust he’ll be fine. good luck brother!
Penn business degree no doubt
Nationals sign lefty Cionel Perez to a minor league deal with an invite to spring training and a provision that pays him $1.9M (with a potential $700,000 in incentives) if he makes the roster.
Unless he gets hurt or is a complete disaster this Spring, Perez will make the MLB roster, believe he is the only relief pitcher on the roster that has spent a full season on the MLB level (and Perez did it in 2023). Understand the Nats are rebuild mode, but without a few late adds, the Nats 2026 bullpen may be the least experienced in MLB history.
Well if Abrams is amazed by Perez in camp unbeknownst to him
That’s some good dugout cred ( baseball phrase for street cred )
Ok
How about a spring totem pole. Poll
On top ten players to shock us in 2026
With elevating with new coaching philosophies
Tech influences and player development staff guru new influences on scuffling careers or young careers just starting
Aka Ben Moore
Liam Sullivan who I nominate as top talent to see percolate like Folgers coffee in your cup in the morning
Hump Wednesday thought
If this young Turks regime can elevate Elijah Green
Then the peanut gallery here in the cosmic bleachers will elevate from sarcasm to discernment
FanGraphs top 100 is up, featuring 4 Nats: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-top-100-prospects
Willits: 15
Susana: 29
Ford: 74
Sykora: 109
Longenhagen has long been the highest prospector on Susana. He absolutely loves his slider. Though he has also adopted an approach where injured players get docked pretty heavily (hence why Sykora sits at 109, despite having the same grade as the 31st best prospect), so it’s a bit curious how Susana maintained his position while being injured, while Sykora tumbled (for example, last season Susana was ranked 29th and Sykora 28th).
Longenhagen (and many others) have begun dreaming about Willits developing power that last season seemed to be off the table, hence why Willits went from a middling top 100 guy, to now a relatively consensus top 25 kind of guy. But I guess if you can project skills on to anyone, it’d be the freshly turned 18 year old…
I struggle to understand the critiques against Ford’s bat, which they gave him a 40 PV and 50 FV. Longenhagen uses bat speed to undermine Ford’s bat, but then he also recognizes that in every season Ford has posted a 125-135 wRC+, while also being 2-3 years below average at every step of the way. It feels, at best nitpicky, or at worst, unfairly inconsistent. A catcher with a career line of .266/.405/.428, 131 wRC+, good chase stats (20.8 K%, 10% swinging strike%), and rapidly improving defense feels a lot better than 74th, especially when you look at the other catchers on this list. For example, Carter Jensen ranks 32nd, but even the most eagle eyed prospect watcher wouldn’t be able to discern the difference between him and Ford over the past 3 seasons:
A: 22 years 11 months, A+-AAA: 16.3% BB%, 20.2% K%, .262/.399/.417, 129 wRC+,
B: 22 years, 7 months, A+-AAA: 14.6% BB%, 24.1% K%, .254/.364/.440, 126 wRC+
Though this is all a bit nitpicky. It’s an extremely detailed read, and always has a ton of great insight.
thanks for the pull. more detail and data for the file.
We might have to rely on a combination of of you Luke
Todd and Sam Sellick to further introduce us to all the PD guys brought in by the
“ Young Turks “
I’m sure Diamond Dave Dombrowski would have interesting take on the Nats young Turks brai trust
I say this with reverence at 60 not condescending
.
Interesting comparison in baseball history would be this Nats young Turks group compared to the Expos brain trust with Dombruwxki , Duquette
Hughes
Boles Kevin Kennedy
Jerry Manuel , Nelson Norman Mike Quade
All the pitching gurus ..
Dave Jauss if reading this would probably be nodding his head
Oh Susanna being taught a new pitch once he graduates from the black band
The Black Hand in tech world .
The Young Turks might be the energy field group to push the Soyo bounty to a higher resonance
I’m still a believer ( sing it Monkeys) in Hassell 3
A believer like I was in number 8 and 29 in Les Montreal
Pierre De Coubertin
Enjoy retirement Mr Carpenter btw
Really good article from the Baltimore Banner featuring interviews with Toboni, a bunch of coaches and players, talking about the org’s new developmental approach: https://www.thebanner.com/sports/nationals-mlb/washington-nationals-data-coaching-paul-toboni-A4BHEVPJTVDQFEJ77HH5ENLWIE/
There’s a lot of generalities, like “dominate” (Toboni sure loves that word) or hiring coaches who know how to “get [players] better”, but there’s also a lot of very specific new coaching methods they’re employing, melded with data-driven analysis.
I found it interesting that Toboni seems to be have regular contact with the players too. Looks like he’ll be very hands on.