Nationals Arm Race

So, BA issued an “update” to its top 30 prospect lists for teams this week. See https://www.baseballamerica.com/teams/1012/washington-nationals/organizational/ for our “new” list. per BA’s site, this update is… “With the minor league season beginning, we have updated our Top 30 prospect rankings for every major league club. These new rankings now include international … [Read more...] about Baseball America “updates” its Nats top 30 and 1st week impressions

Armando Cruz gets high props with this list. Photo via talknats.com Even though the 2022 season has started, we’re still seeing pundit Prospect ranking lists trickle in. In fact, we still havn’t seen several major shops’ Nats list at this point, so we’ll continue doing these posts as they arrive. Today, Prospectdigest.com and its lead pundit Joseph Werner released his … [Read more...] about ProspectDigest Nats top 10 released

On 4/5/22, because for some weird reason AAA started 3 days before the rest of the minors, we got the Rochester roster announcement. Then, on 4/8/22, we got the other three full season affiliate roster announcements (click here for Harrisburg, Wilmington, Fredericksburg). H/T to Luke Erickson and nationalsprospects.com for these links. After several hours of furious XLS … [Read more...] about Full Season Affiliate roster Analysis

Soto may be the sole bright spot for the 2022 season. Photo via nj.com Short version of this post: we are going to be absolutely awful this year. Longer Version…. At the end of Spring Training, the 2022 Nats are heading into battle with a 28-man roster that breaks down like the following: 4 NRIs signed to minor league deals this past off-season (as per the most … [Read more...] about 2022 Nats Season preview

Maikel Franco makes the team as an NRI and will start at 3B. Photo via nbcsports.com Thanks to the compressed Spring Training in 2022, we never did the navel gazing “which NRI may make the team?” after the team announced all its NRIs and MLFA signings. But, now that the dust has settled, we did want to identify the NRIs and note which of them actually did make the team … [Read more...] about Spring Training 2022 NRI Disposition