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Happy Holidays

It’s Christmas Eve for many, Eggnog Day for others, and December 24 for most. Whatever your creed, I hope that by the time you read this, you’ll be as happy as my bulldog taking his morning nap.

I also wish that you’ve arrived at where you wanted to go and done all you needed to do for the celebration of your chosen holiday (and if your holiday has come and gone, enjoy the time off from work, if you’re able).

Stay safe, be grateful, and spend time with those you love and who love you. And if you can spare something to those without – no matter if it’s food, drink, time, or money – please do.

FanGraphs Releases Top 22 Nats List

In the old world order, this would have been a post about John Sickels’s take on the Nationals prospects, who has become a free agent after Vox Media pulled the plug on him, no doubt because he refused to rely on vacuous maps or endless quotes of Tweets, but time hurries on (and the leaves …

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Nats Send PTBNL to Indians

The player to be named later with the Nats-Indians trade has been identified as Andruw Monasterio, a.k.a. the player the Nats got when they traded raging homophobe infielder Daniel Murphy to the Cubs this past August.

As noted in the comments, this may render the latter trade as essentially giving away Murphy. It’s not clear if/when Chicago and Washington completed their trade, which at the time (Aug. 21), was reported to be Monasterio and a player to be named later or cash considerations.

Occam’s Razor suggests it was indeed cash, which is far less satisfying, but par for the course with Rizzo’s July-August trades of late, where the Nats GM has been more Napoleon than Jefferson.

The NationalProspects.com Top 10 Pitchers

If you’re wondering why Mike Rizzo is on the hunt for more starting pitching, this list ought to be a clue. Simply put: Just one of these 10 is age-appropriate-to-the-level and has had a modicum of success as a starter. And since Sterling Sharp doesn’t throw 95 and isn’t lefthanded… Please hold while I pass …

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Nats Trade For Younger Tanner

Apparently deciding not to risk a third straight year of decline, the Nationals traded Tanner Roark to the Reds for Tanner Rainey. As noted by the Post’s latest beat writer in his lede, the move is also about reallocating money—with the exception of second wives, younger is cheaper—toward other another starter. It also probably didn’t …

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Vote for Your Favorite Arms

While the argument about how much the bar for the Hall of Fame has been lowered again has resurfaced, it’s time for us to move on to our next step toward riding out another winter. Mason Denaburg will probably assume the mantle of the clear-cut #1—despite not having thrown a pitch against a professional batter—as …

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Vote for Your Favorite Bats

Quick! Before they get traded! It’s time for our annual offseason ritual to fill the void between when Boswell stops blathering about baseball and starts blathering about football October and March by crowdsourcing our favorite position players in the Nationals minor leagues. OK, so here’s how it works… Send me your Top 10 list of …

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Daniel Johnson, PTBNL part of Nats-Indians Trade

It’s another reminder that the days of us getting excited by news of a trade (“ooh – someone new”) have shifted (“ugh – who’d we lose?”) as Daniel Johnson, Jefry Rodriguez, and the eponymous player to be named later were traded to Cleveland for catcher Yan Gomes. Johnson, who had a meteoric rise through the …

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