The NL East has three teams that could be aging out, and they all have poor farm systems. The Washington Nationals are aging in as the youngest team in baseball, and they have an excellent farm sys…

When Nathaniel Lowe speaks, it’s time for me to plug my ears. Heard it before. The same guy who dissed the Uncle Sam home run celebration hat in his brief stint with the Washington Nationals.…

Modern baseball is far different from the days when a starter might pitch both ends of a doubleheader. Wilbur Wood of the Chicago White Sox famously started both games of a doubleheader against the…

The best laid plans can fail because of all of the variables involved. There are few sure things in life. Anyone who has ever taken a chance or a risk knows that. Some will say that buying quality …

What we learned this year is that not all blown-saves are created equally. The blown-save loss is much different than a blown-save that leaves you with a chance to still win the game. Of the Washin…

This could be a Moneyball World Series matchup if the Milwaukee Brewers emerge as the National League champion. Of course that would entail beating the Los Angeles Dodgers to advance to the World S…

The short-term goals of the Washington Nationals as laid-out by president of baseball operations, Paul Toboni, started with building a solid foundation and improving the current stock of players. W…

We have been saying it for years that the new Moneyball formula is what the Brewers and Royals were trying to put together with second-tier pitchers, above average bullpens, and that Billy Beane st…

When your team is out of the postseason, this is the time of year to begin the process of who will and won’t be part of the future as the Nationals have to clear 40-man spots on the roster fo…

Saturdays in October are about the change of seasons in so many parts of the country where the foliage is turning to a new color palette revealing underlying yellow and orange carotenoids and new r…

Even with a possible lockout of baseball, teams still have to plan for their arbitration-eligible players. MLB Trade Rumors is an excellent resource for projecting those salaries. The Washington Na…

We’re wrapping up our report card feature (part 1, part 2) on the 2026 Washington Nationals with grades for the brass. I’ve chosen to grade the coaching staff and front office in &#8220…

Pencils down! The 2026 regular season is over, and it’s time for the Washington Nationals to get their report card. Let’s preface this with some boilerplate: These grades are just for f…

There is a circular co-dependency between revenues and spending in sports. Some would ask, what comes first in a chicken and the egg scenario? The simplistic answer is you spend with the hopes that…

The Washington Nationals finished on a hot streak en route to winning 10 of their final 14 games to finish the season. Just over two weeks ago, the team was stuck at 67 wins and now got to 77 wins …

LAS VEGAS, NV — If you stayed up to 10:30 p.m. local (1:30 a.m. ET), you saw Triple-A Rochester lose the championship game in the most “Nats” way ever with a blown-save that turned into a bul…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — In a come-from-behind “Never say die” win as Triple-A Rochester Red Wings manager Matt LeCroy said after his team won the Triple-A International League championship last night…

There is a reason they play the games. Everyone has opinions — and most stink. Facts are facts, and all we want are the facts, ma’am. On Sunday evening, we will have the facts. The fina…

The final score of a 15-8 blow-out might not give you the full gist of how Triple-A Rochester stormed back from an early deficit due to poor defense to win the final game of the Triple-A regular se…

There has been so much said about the Washington Nationals bullpen ineptitude. They set a notorious record for the most blown saves in a season and are still adding to that record. When you see the…

Source: The Washington Nationals and Cade Cavalli are in advanced talks for a contract extension that would buy-out Cavalli’s 3 remaining arbitration years as well as free agent years. Cavall…

Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Great. The good news in last night’s game is that the Washington Nationals bullpen pitched 8⅔ innings of 1-run, 4-hit baseball with seven stri…

The Washington Nationals payroll gets a major reset after this season. All of those non-performing and bad contracts are off the books per the MLB calculation. The Stephen Strasburg deal valued at …

Hollywood magic is amazing when you think about how they would splice together actual film celluloid before the digital age. Throw on some pixie dust and you could splice together time to be seamle…

When you have one of those bad stretches, sometimes it just helps to find some good in between the negativity. Slowly, Dylan Crews is starting to figure things out. This is what the Washington Nati…

Not all blown saves are created equally. The blown save rules are complex, and sometimes not fair. Of the 37 blown saves the Washington Nationals have had in the 2026 season, there have been 22 gam…

Let’s just say it, Albert Hammond was full of it when he sung, “It Never Rains in Southern California” in 1972. The pregame had a Pacific storm blown in, and the game started with drizzle and…

As the Washington Nationals build through their multi-year rebuild, 2027 shapes up as a potential inflection point for this team. The 2026 team proved that by coaching up players that they can impr…

Remember those days when Washington Nationals fans were spoiled in 2015 with a rotation of Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann, and Gio Gonzalez? That was the&nbs…

For the Washington Nationals, they have had some horrible bullpens over the years. Don’t let anyone try to tell you that this is a new problem. If you take the Rockies out of the equation, th…

The Washington Nationals just won their 63ʳᵈ game of the season, and by doing so, there will be no 100-loss season. To some, that might not sound like an accomplishment, but there were plenty of so…

You would think the Washington Nationals won a key game when you tuned into ESPN’s Sportscenter late on Sunday evening. The show led with Jacob Young’s Spiderman catch, and followed tha…

The definition of a blown save is not understood by all fans. They are all bad for the team collared with that blown save, but not all blown saves turn into losses. Some really are not the reliever…

Baseball’s regular season will be ending soon. And what makes the future unclear is that baseball could go on strike to threaten the 2027 season. All we can do is talk about what we do have, …

When you think of your Mount Rushmore of Washington Nationals pitchers, you know that Stephen Strasburg and Max Scherzer would be two of the pitchers chiseled into that Harney Peak granite in South…

When Paul Toboni declared that he wanted his baseball team to be the “Envy of [his] sport,” many felt that was just a young guy talking BS. Toboni presided over one of the swiftest overhauls the sp…

In the offseason, Jacob Young set-up shop in Tampa, Florida to be close to the Driveline hitting lab and get in work with Travis Fitta. The goal for Young was to increase his bat speed and get his …

The Washington Nationals notched their second sweep of the season, and have now won their last 4-of-5 games at an opportune time after that 7-game losing streak had them reeling at the trade deadli…

Photo by Intrepid/Nats.Talk How many times can you get punched in the gut as a Washington Nationals fan? Exactly five years ago at the 2021 trade deadline and two glorious calendar years after the …

Photo Marideth Sandler/Nats.Talk For the younger crowd, “Who’s on First?” was a comedy routine made famous by Abbott and Costello in 1945. They would perform this live until 1957, a…

We all knew that Paul Toboni was trying to work trades. But did you expect within an hour of midnight in Washington, D.C. on this Saturday night that the first big trade of the deadline timeframe w…

Photo Sol Tucker/Nats.Talk Fans and players alike just want hope. A legitimate chance to win every day. Are you going to purchase tickets when you see that Zack Littell or Miles Mikolas are pitchin…

If only it was that easy to write an 8-figure check, as an employer, who hasn’t done that in years with a new hire. Yes, we have written this before back on May 27 that the Lerner ownership g…

This is the time of year to be on ‘hug watch’ during MLB games as we approach the trade deadline that is on Monday, August 3, at 6:00 p.m. ET. While there will not be any games in progress on Augus…

The current MLB soft cap system at the top, known as the Competitive Balance Tax (CBT), worked for years. Then teams like the Mets, Dodgers, and Phillies stopped caring about CBT penalties and spen…

The Washington Nationals are experiencing a surge in talent with All-Stars James Wood, CJ Abrams, and Foster Griffin leading the charge. As the team contemplates trade decisions and potential exten…

Photo Andrew Lang/Nats.Talk Today is the first of the two days of the MLB Draft. On schedule is four rounds to be picked today with the remaining 16 rounds tomorrow of the 20 round draft. The Nats …

Photo Sol Tucker/Nats.Talk Yesterday, Paul Toboni appeared on his weekly radio segment on the Sports Junkies radio show, and said the trade market will start heating up after this weekend’s M…