Nationals Baseball

 Some quick notes  Old Friend Tyler Clippard has been brought back to DC.  The season is pretty clearly focused on turning some veterans int...

 Two posts ago I pondered how the Nats could actually be playoff competitive this year.  While involving luck it didn't involve anything...

Note it's not a "comeback" tour.  The Nats aren't coming back to anything. But some former Nats are coming back to the tea...

Carter Kieboom is done.  Ok, that's hyperbole.  He's not done for his career, or the season, or even April maybe. But he is hurt and...

So... could the Nats make the playoffs?  This is a transition season for the Nats. After two years of trying to keep the window open using c...

The big NL East move... well I guess the big one is Olson signing long-term, which cemented the Braves as a "win-now but long-term...

The Nats didn't stop signing people, yesterday bringing in old friend Sean Doolittle. Like a lot of Nats relievers (Clippard, Storen, So...

 The shortened Spring was going to give us a flurry of moves and even a team like the Nats, presumably out of it and rebuilding, would be in...

I won’t go over the details because other people will do it more thoroughly.  The way I read it the main takeaway is the players got a foot ...

 And by “we” I mean baseball players. Major league ones.  In Florida.   And by “back” I mean have agreed to a collective bargaining agreemen...

 No seriously they are!  One could argue (if they were me) that the owners made their first serious offer yesterday. The minor league minimu...

There's nothing to report lockout wise. The MLBPA came back with an offer a tiny bit closer to the MLB one to which the MLB said "Y...

On Tuesday the talks fell apart.  It's probably more accurate to say the talks were never actually building as we had hoped and the piec...

 Still negotiating with the CBT still being the sticking point.  The players basically caved already and said - we'll take very little i...

 Enjoyed a solid President's Day (Presidents' Day?  Presidents Day'?) of signing bills into law and making public appearances.  ...

Word got out yesterday that the Nats offered Soto a long term contract (that's good!) and it was rejected (that's bad!) but exactly ...

Like I said yesterday Ryan Zimmerman has retired.   Even though he was only ever a National there were very distinctive parts of Zimmerman...

Just when I though I had something interesting to say, Zimm makes that moot by hanging up the spikes .  Long career, lots of money, title.  ...

The baseball negotiations continue as the owners try to make themselves out to be poor and those mean old players are not helping trying to ...

The players said no to federal moderation because they felt the owners actually hadn't done much negotiating. That's probably true. ...