if we're evaluating managers by overperformance of expectations and overcoming of injuries, this was boone's second-most impressive season behind 2019

kyle finnegan versus victor robles with the american league division series on the line

2017 Washington Nationals Blake Treinen making an appearance tonight

that’s not the double but it’s definitely *a* double

beating a 99 mile an hour fastball to a spot like that is insane, it’s crazy that anyone ever gets a hit in baseball

pan right you idiots

one battle after another is as good as everyone says it is, thank you all for not being liars

if the sun is setting on the guardians season does that mean i can eat now

torn between wanting the guardians to win because the tigers blowing the division should mean something and wanting the tigers to win because the guardians are boring as hell and tarik skubal is at least interesting

you guys watching the big game? pretty good contest!

gotta know what the field mics were picking up there that abc had no choice but to drop audio completely

even if guardians-tigers is the only game tomorrow i still think they should make them play at 1 pm, this is not a primetime series

i can't remember watching another broadcast having more problem with dynamic lighting in the shadows than this espn guardians-tigers game

who in the hell is george valera

trent grisham in a crucial spot with the bases loaded and two out in a 3-1 game in the wild card round?

padres win the jonathan papelbon trade

you’re playing matchup baseball with literally tarik skubal. jail

if skubal doesn’t come back out to start the eighth i will write a sternly-worded letter to mr. rob manfred

stop yelling, i’m already gonna

is there a way to do this so i re-hire davey martinez

well-deserved drive.google.com/file/d/15DZI...

way to avoid getting swept at home by the pirates and move to 81-78! very deserving of a playoff spot and roughly equal chance at a world series as the los angeles dodgers

this isn't trout versus cabrera, fwar (which tries to factor in the real inputs behind catcher defense) has it at a half win gap (bwar, which doesn't, has a big gap, as you'd expect) and i don't think it's anti-stat to say that maybe there are some catcher defense inputs we don't/can't measure

jesse will promote flax’s substack just because it “has insight” and “requires effort” and yet he hasn’t said a single word about the raschcast episode we dropped last night, probably because we had him on once and he hasn’t been asked back

this 6th playoff spot in the nl disgusts me. the fact that a home run for an 80-77 team against the pirates could reasonably be described as “the biggest hit” in a player’s career is gross

you could listen to this or you could listen to two nobodies with no insider information talk about the sorry state of the nats while trying to cover their sadness in a veneer of apathy. i know what i’d rather listen to

fact check: no one has ever been excited for a new raschcast (we’re certainly not)

paul poboni

sure. on the other hand he's on track for 85-90 career war and is even odds to become the second member of the 400-400 club but even if he's properly rated by baseball writers i don't think we could describe him as a "face of baseball" in any meaningful way

didn't deserve it? do i need to remind you that the 2019 nationals led the league in vibes

the fragmented ownership structure (and the varying levels of investment members of that structure have in building a winning team) is basically the root of all the nats problems right now and it’s not getting fixed unless ted leonsis comes up with $2.5 billion

fondly remembering some stuff web.archive.org/web/20141231...

let us each remember Kershaw in our own special way and by that I mean pick a crushing playoff homer he gave up youtu.be/3zj_-l3vTJU?...

didn’t realize the nats put a blue seat in the red porch to mark the zim opening night walkoff

RIP Good Davey, 2012 feels farther away every day

for one thing, ops+ has him at a 151, which is not only better than any geoff jenkins season, it's better than the career ops+ of jeff bagwell, edgar martinez, and jim thome. for another thing, does anyone remember carlos beltran's 2005 and then his 2006. for another thing, shut the fuck up

the og blake snell. that 2017 season was the greatest "how the hell is this working" season i've ever watched

what the hell did this team’s hitting coaches do to james wood to have him be taking swings like that

highest 2 lowest review: extremely my shit, would recommend even if like me you haven’t seen the kurasowa movie (though it would probably help to have seen it)

boys status: battlin

cade cavalli being good would be very neat

figures that the one offseason move the nats made that i actually liked was the one that ended up being the most disastrous

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is. Verdict: hellhole.

hate to say this but the washington nationals may not be a very good baseball team

the nats did not have an impactful trade deadline because outside of gore they just don’t have anyone impactful to trade. the trades they made will be lucky to produce more than one big leaguer. total non-factor

alex call was a good waiver claim, jesse dougherty’s source is vindicated

tony randall and soupy sales? what a trade