By Joe Drugan of The Nats Blog:
Today is the penultimate edition of Next Season's Roster, and we're going to show the predictions for pitchers on the outside of the Washington Nationals organizatoin looking in. That means those who won't be in the organization to start next season.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Washington Nationals step it up in the leadership department
By Mark Tuohey of the Washington Post:
“I suppose that it was an important part of McGraw’s great capacity for leadership that he would take kids out of the coal mines and out of the wheat fields and make them walk and talk and chatter and play ball with the look of eagles.”
In the New York World Telegraph in 1923, sportswriter Heywood Brown wrote these words of famed New York Giants manager John McGraw. And 88 years later, as another baseball season draws to a close, the manager selected mid-season to lead the Washington Nationals shows something of the same leadership capacity.
An All-Star second baseman and well-respected manager, Davey Johnson has done outstanding work this season to mold the Nationals into a true team, whose dramatic third-place finish bodes well for their future as a playoff competitor in the National League.
You can read the rest of the story here: Washington Nationals step it up in the leadership department
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“I suppose that it was an important part of McGraw’s great capacity for leadership that he would take kids out of the coal mines and out of the wheat fields and make them walk and talk and chatter and play ball with the look of eagles.”
In the New York World Telegraph in 1923, sportswriter Heywood Brown wrote these words of famed New York Giants manager John McGraw. And 88 years later, as another baseball season draws to a close, the manager selected mid-season to lead the Washington Nationals shows something of the same leadership capacity.
An All-Star second baseman and well-respected manager, Davey Johnson has done outstanding work this season to mold the Nationals into a true team, whose dramatic third-place finish bodes well for their future as a playoff competitor in the National League.
You can read the rest of the story here: Washington Nationals step it up in the leadership department
Tell us what you think at our Nationals Forum
Monday, October 17, 2011
Nationals' Harper off to slow start in Arizona
From the Sporting News:
Washington Nationals prospect Bryce Harper has experienced one of the worst statistical starts of any player in the Arizona Fall League, going 3 for 27 with only three RBIs, five strikeouts and two walks, through the first full week of games, The Washington Post reported.
The Post presented the numbers with a couple of caveats: First, seven games is not a sample size worth causing alarm, and, second, the slow start is typical of Harper’s baseball career, dating back to junior college.
You can read the rest of the story here: Nationals' Harper off to slow start in Arizona
Tell us how you feel at our Nationals Forum
Washington Nationals prospect Bryce Harper has experienced one of the worst statistical starts of any player in the Arizona Fall League, going 3 for 27 with only three RBIs, five strikeouts and two walks, through the first full week of games, The Washington Post reported.
The Post presented the numbers with a couple of caveats: First, seven games is not a sample size worth causing alarm, and, second, the slow start is typical of Harper’s baseball career, dating back to junior college.
You can read the rest of the story here: Nationals' Harper off to slow start in Arizona
Tell us how you feel at our Nationals Forum
Sunday, October 16, 2011
2011 Washington Nationals: A fine season of baseball
With 80 wins, you can say the Nationals had a good season. With promise of a bright future and games that were competitive, it was a fun season.
Vance Garnett of the Washington Times takes a look at the Nationals season here: 2011 Washington Nationals: A fine season of baseball
Here is an excerpt: "For Washington, the 2011 baseball season is a wrap. And a wild and crazy season it was. All right, Washington did not quite end with the .500 winning season it had courted.
A few times it looked like Washington could possibly pull it off. But, alas--one game, one home run, thinly sliced the difference between a winning season and a non-winning season with the precision of a TV chef with a Ginsu knife."
Tell us what you think at our Nationals Forum
Vance Garnett of the Washington Times takes a look at the Nationals season here: 2011 Washington Nationals: A fine season of baseball
Here is an excerpt: "For Washington, the 2011 baseball season is a wrap. And a wild and crazy season it was. All right, Washington did not quite end with the .500 winning season it had courted.
A few times it looked like Washington could possibly pull it off. But, alas--one game, one home run, thinly sliced the difference between a winning season and a non-winning season with the precision of a TV chef with a Ginsu knife."
Tell us what you think at our Nationals Forum
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