While I may have been waiting to see if the Nats were done on the trade front until January, the little burst of minor-league news last week kept this on the backburner until today. This was easier to compile than a year ago, though I’m not sure why. The system still skews old and there’s …
With Chanukah in progress, Festivus and Sostice past us, and Christmas Eve today, we’re in the midst of the holidays that mark the end of the year.
My annual wish for you is that by time you read this, your to-do list is all checked off, you’ve gotten to where you want to be, and you’re about to spend time with those you love and/or family 😉
Please be happy, be safe, and be grateful for what you have. There are (far too) many who are not.
If you can spare something to help change that—money, food, or just a moment of your time—then please do so. Kindness is something that we could all use a little bit more of.
Last week, the Nationals announced its managers and coaches for 2020: Affiliate Manager Pitching Coach Hitting Coach Fresno Randy Knorr Michael Tejera Brian Daubach Harrisburg Billy Gardner Jr. Sam Narron Brian Rupp Fredericksburg Tripp Keister Justin Lord Luis Ordaz Hagerstown Mario Lisson Pat Rice Jorge Mejia Auburn Patrick Anderson Franklin Bravo Mark Harris GCL Ralph …
While a bit specious, yesterday MiLB.com released its 2019 All-Stars for the Washington system. To justify this post make things a bit more interesting (and relevant), I decided to add two more columns for age – under 26 and appropriate to the level. I’m sure some of you will disagree 😉 POSITION MiLB.COM UNDER 26 …
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: …