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A look at 2012 player projections
It’s always fun to look at projections for how players will do next season. Any individual projection is, of course, very likely to be wrong, but a group of player projections will often get the story...
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Links to remember
I haven’t done one of these posts for quite a well, so please pardon me if some of these links are a bit long in the tooth. Here are a few links I’d like to remember from the last half of the Nats’...
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Denard Span vs. B.J. Upton
It was an exciting day for the Nationals and the NL East, as the Nats traded their top pitching prospect Alex Meyer to the Twins for Denard Span, with the trade coming less than 24 hours after the...
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First quarter review: Performance versus expectations
We’re now through the first fourth of the season, and its time for the team’s first progress report. This time I decided to compare each player’s performance with what was expected of him this year....
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The Nats haven’t met expectations. Who’s at fault?
The Nats haven’t met expectations. A lot of blame is going around. I’m going to try to systematically answer the question: which players are most to blame for performing below what was expected? To...
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Nats’ July in review: It looks more like a bust
The Nationals entered July one game above .500 and 6-1/2 games back of the Braves, needing a strong, winning month in order to remain relevant for the divisional or wild card races. Instead, they...
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David DeJesus? Huh?
This afternoon the Nats announced that they had acquired outfielder David DeJesus from the Chicago Cubs and had released Roger Bernadina. Many Nats fans are undoubtedly wondering why this move was...
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Nats’ performance versus expectations at the 75% mark
On Saturday, the Nationals completed their 122nd game, marking 75% of their scheduled games this season. At the 25% mark and after the All-Star break, I posted evaluations of the Nats players,...
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The Nats, the Braves, the bullpen, and the bench
The Braves are coming to town on Monday and for the Nats, it’s a must-win series. Not the type of must-win series we may have anticipated in May or June if we had looked ahead to September’s...
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This off-season: A review
With the exception of the Doug Fister trade, it’s been a pretty quiet off-season for the Nats. With pitchers and catchers scheduled to report in less than two weeks, I guess I’ll go ahead and try to...
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