The Red Sox beat the Nationals 10-3 on Saturday afternoon, evening their record at 45-45. It was the franchise's 10,000th regular season victory. Boston is the second American League team and the tenth major league team to reach 10,000 wins. The franchise has 108 postseason wins. Here are the franchises with more than 5,000 wins, as of a few days ago. Also: The second-longest World Series championship drought is 56 years, held by the Brewers and Padres . . . . Weird.
From the joy of sox
| 5 months ago
| 2 reads
And Fire Rizzo. And Sell the Team Look I've been an advocate for Rizzo, who can deal with the best of them, and is perfectly acceptable at IDing long range contract targets (some bomb, some work out - that's just how it goes). But sticking by Davey here isn't about results or Davey's proven track record with kids (which doesn't exist), it's about keeping a guy who doesn't complain about the roster at all and works quietly with whatever he's given. Rizzo bombed in...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
| 1 read
Are we talking about this blog or the Nats? Hey yo! After the nice run that ended with a sweep of Arizona the Nats have played, as we've gone over before, like you'd expect a 75 win team to play. Competitive enough that you would be surprised at them being swept in two straight series. Not good enough that you'd really expect them to win two straight series against better teams. And there are a fair number of better teams. The dregs of the NL remain the dregs, the...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
| 1 read
I'm thankful for a lot but I'm very thankful today that the Nats team is winning in strong fashion and not sneaking out close wins because if there's one thing that I hate (and as you can probably tell there are many) it's the trite re-use of the "Cardiac" nickname for any team of young players (Cardiac Kids!) or whose name slightly allows it because of a similar sound (CardiAc NAts!). That isn't happening here. I can breathe. I'm also thankful for a great weekend of Nats bas...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
| 1 read
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Pretty good deal for a 23-year-old. All-Star outfielder Juan Soto and the Nationals have avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $17.1 million deal. MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand was among the reporters to tweet out the news on Tuesday evening.
Juan Soto and the Nationals have agreed to a $17.1 million contract to avoid arbitration, per source. — Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) March 22, 2022
Soto, who was a “super two” player and is in his second seas...
From MLB Daily Dish
| over 3 years ago
| 1 read
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Trea Turner just got a healthy raise. One of the primary reasons that the Nationals decided to part ways with Trea Turner and trade him to the Dodgers was that is was clear he was going to be making big time money both in the short and long-term. With the Nationals not set to contend in the near-term, having a luxury like Trea around (especially with his free agency looming) didn’t make the most sense.
However, what that meant is that for 2022, the Dodge...
From MLB Daily Dish
| over 3 years ago
| 3 reads
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How quickly can this be turned around? I am now working on the New York Mets Top 20 prospects for 2019 list. The next team in line is the Baltimore Orioles to be followed by the Philadelphia Phillies , the Cleveland Indians , the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Houston Astros , the Chicago Cubs , the Toronto Blue Jays , and the Washington Nationals.
Use this thread to discuss the Baltimore Orioles organization. Possible points for discussion include, but ...
From Minor League Ball
| about 7 years ago
| 2 reads