I was going to write basically this exact post, but Beyond the Boxscore beat me to it. The bottom line: after the Nationals' most recent skid, there's basically zero chance that the Nationals do not end up with the worst record in baseball in 2009. Bryce Harper, welcome to DC. Congratulations, ScatsTown. We've still got nowhere to go but up.
Now for the next question: can this team avoid three in a row? We'll see, but with young pitchers dropping like flies (or fading like like McCain in October), where does this team get substantial improvement? I guess we can hope for some random fluctuation. Can we get a Go Randomness! graphic on the big scoreboard?
Thursday, September 3, 2009
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I had been thinking the same (that it's over, not that I was going to post an analysis). I am pretty excited about the prospect of prospect Bryce Harper, so I can live with more suck. This is how Tampa Bay rose. If you stink, you have to play it well.
I don't understand why the right track/wrong track poll always seems to reflect the Nats record over the period of the poll. To me, the record of the team at the moment and the direction the organization is headed are two completely different things
I think it is too early to totally dismiss the Royals in the Bryce Harper sweepstakes. They are a terrible team and they have a rough schedule for the 29 remaining games, as follows: Angels--4, Tigers--6, Indians 3, White Sox--3, Red Sox---4, Twins---6 and Yankees---3.
This spring Kasten said a few times that he wanted to be like the Rays. I assumed he was talking more generally building through the system and making trades for prospects and drafting well, etc. I now realize Kasten meant much more than just the winning part...
Kasten wants to build EXACTLY like the Rays. He wants to finish in close to last place for a decade to stockpile the system with top-10 draft picks, and then get lucky that enough of these picks bloom at the same time to have a 3 year window of success before the Lerners refuse to resign their developed talent, let it go in free agency and start over again. Or we can trade all of our talent for more prospects and turn into something similar to the Twins, the Indians and....the Pirates. The first 2 wouldn't be such a bad thing, the last is a nightmare.
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