Riggo#44

18 minutes ago, Ball Security said:

Small things. SF’s pitcher was absolutely dealing. 8 up, 8 down with six strikeouts. Young gets a single up the middle. Basically gets picked off first, but beats the through down to second for a steal. Steals third standing with two outs. Now, because of speed, the pitcher can’t put the ball in the dirt to get Abrams to chase with two strikes. Puts it over the plate, and boom, two run homerun.

 Calling that just a home run is underselling it. Abrams vaporized that ball. 106.6 off the bat, 423 ft.

4 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

Damn @Riggo#44 , you were right...feels like only way to get past the politics of our favorite players is to act like you don't know and focus on the sport itself much as you can...

Or just not care about politics at all.

28 minutes ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

EGreene with 6Ks in 10AB 2H .200

Epic bust--he will never even see AA.

4 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Lack of cocaine and cigarettes in the dugout…

9 hours ago, Bifflog said:

 

It would probably be a shame to come out of our first 3 picks without one considering the value in this draft at the position?  QB > OT > WR for the first 3 picks with a good prospect at each slot would be prettttty great...

I am fine not getting a WR until the 3rd. We have a gaping hole at LT right now. I am still convinced that 40 and 78 are going to end up vaulting us back into the 1st for an OT. If we got Keon Coleman or Xavier Leggette in the top of the 3rd, I'd be very happy.

13 hours ago, Warhead36 said:

We'll draft one at least. Possibly two. Very deep OT draft.

Loud Useless Windbag last night was saying wide receiver was a bigger need and the 36th pick should only be used on a receiver.

I hate our media.

Bunts and BABIPs killing us

And Barnes sucks

Seeing what Reddick and Burns went for, we got a steal for Sweat.

Nike sucks. I didn’t think the lettering looked that bad on TV, but they don’t match the pants and don’t look like they fit. What a debacle these jerseys are. And I really want a CJ Abrams jersey. Assholes

Man, what a game by Abrams yesterday. Total havoc on the base paths. If CJ has learned some plate discipline?

15 hours ago, Ball Security said:

Did Joe Ross ever win you $13 on over 5.5 Ks on opening day? Did he? Did he!

Josiah Gray reminds me so much of Joe Ross.

2 minutes ago, Metalhead said:

I'm resubbing Fubo too. I cancelled youtube tv last night. I haven't watched Nats games on tv in years, it's been all Charlie and Dave because of the issues.

I already like David Rubenstein.

22 minutes ago, bcl05 said:

Don't make me pick between Stras/Max/Zimm.  I'll love them all forever.  2019 was pure magic.

 

 

So many heroes: Eaton, Kendrick, Soto, Rendon, Cabrera, Parra, Suzuki, Gomes, Doolittle, Huddy...

4 minutes ago, TD_washingtonredskins said:

 

G&D don't bother me as much as they bother others. It's not that I think they are brilliant or anything, they aren't. But, I have never gotten the impression that they believe they are or are trying to be. They facilitate - interview people, give their "sport fan" opinions on the local teams, etc. Maybe that's why it's never bothered me...they seem to have the same level of knowledge that I do...

 

Sheehan has been my favorite in the area for a long time. He has generally held the same opinions as me, but he's much more informed and articulate than I am. 

Once I find someone annoying--it's very hard for me to get off that idea. They were incredibly condescending to anyone with a different opinion back in ~2014-17. They would deride anyone that disagreed with them, no matter how reasonable, with "you can think that, we'll just go on being right." They blocked me when they were ****ing about lineup choices and I posted an article from FanGraphs showing how meaningless batting order is over the course of a season. I also argued that players have preferences that make them more comfortable and productive. They got increasingly aggressive with their whole "we're on the radio so we're experts" grandstanding. They blocked me after throwing back at them the going on being right bit (Paulsen) and asking if they knew what batting splits were (Rouhier).

I just switch to FuboTV. I get to watch the Nationals this year!! **** you YouTubeTV and MASN. Mostly MASN though.

I am giddy over what Law said about Gore. One thing I like about Law and BA rather than prospect writers at FanGraphs or BaseballProspectus is they are actively scouting the players--not just reading metrics and watching a little video.

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Mackenzie Gore started the game for the big-league side and was, as you might expect, pretty dominant. He was 95-98 mph with five distinct pitches, including a changeup that was easily plus when he finished it — with two sailing to the backstop — as well as a tight curveball, power slider up to 92, and a “sweeper” or whatever you want to call it at 84-86 that had a sharper, more vertical break than the slider did. The four-seamer was the worst pitch he threw, even though he did blow it by some guys; in the middle of the zone, even some of the kids could square it up. He looked like a guy in his last or second-to-last spring training start, just getting tuned up for the regular season.

Gore only threw 65 pitches in four innings, getting 18 swings and misses in that span, which would be a lot of swings and misses for a big-league starter in a regular-season game where he threw 100 pitches. Everyone is so eager to say that this guy in Double A or that guy in Triple A is ready to hit in the majors, but it turns out that hitting major-league pitching is really hard, even for some of the best prospects in baseball. Gore faced all of the starters for the prospect side, including three first-round picks, one sandwich-round pick, and one second-rounder, and he carved them up like they were just some Easter ham. So for everyone arguing the very talented James Wood should have made the Nats’ Opening Day roster after a great spring, well, it’s not as easy as it looks.

On Wood:

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Wood did have one of the only hits off Gore, getting a slider up that caught too much of the zone and staying with it to line it to the left field corner for a double, a great result for Wood given that he’s also a left-handed hitter. His second at-bat was a strikeout on that sweeper where he tried to check his swing but didn’t pick up the pitch in time. He still runs extremely well and while he started in right field, I have no reservations about his defense in center. It’s all going to come down to whether he can make consistent contact at the plate.

Crews:

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Dylan Crews was the starter in center, and he was fine out there, if unchallenged. He looks bigger and stronger than when I saw him last year, either in April at LSU or in September for Harrisburg, particularly in his lower half. He punched out on one of those plus changeups from Gore the first time up, then lined a curveball to right for a single the next time against the southpaw, followed by a hard grounder (106 mph off the bat) for a fielder’s choice off a slider from right-hander Trevor Williams. Wood is starting in Triple A, and Crews in Double A, but given my history with both guys and their pitch data from last year, I think Crews is closer to being ready to hit big-league pitching right now. Both should spend at least half of 2024 in the majors, though.

Law was less than enthused about Lipscomb, Rutledge and Garcia. Man, we should have taken Brooks Lee instead of Green.

48 minutes ago, purbeast said:

LOL I think we know who your favorite host on the station is.

Yeah, not enough coffee. I was thinking about whether I'd rail on The Screaming Idiot and his side kick Useless Loud Windbag.

16 hours ago, TD_washingtonredskins said:

 

I don't tune in much, but I don't think the shows are all that bad. I've lived here for 40+ years and listened to sports radio for most of that time...I think Sheehan, Grant & Danny, Finley, etc. are all perfectly capable local sports guys. 

I still listen to the Junkies mostly out of habit--but I don't take them seriously, especially when they talk about baseball. JP and Finlay are the best show on the station. Grant and Danny are atrocious--I stopped listening to them years ago. Every time I see or hear anything they say, it's dripping with unaware arrogance. They're both dumber than a bag of hammers, but think they're the smartest guys in the room. There is a reason Danny never made it as a comedian.

21 hours ago, Always A Commander Never A Captain said:

Almost all of our pitchers are JAG's. Gore has potential. We've got Cavalli coming. Maybe there's still an argument for Gray? But until Cavalli that's like 4 of 5 starters who probably would not start on better teams.

Irvin and Gore both have potential. They may not be aces--but they both have 2nd-3rd starter potential. Irvin had 15 straight scoreless innings in Spring Training. It's not like they're 29-30.

On 3/26/2024 at 6:05 PM, @DCGoldPants said:

Also, he nicely said he's always focused on pitching and needing those guys who perform. I then yelled in my car "bro, when your 5th starter is at his best, he's still a jag"

I bet he's going to run out and sign someone right now! 

Or just wait for Cavalli who is targeted in May or June and kick Williams to bullpen. Either or.

1 minute ago, Ball Security said:

You’re thinking Sammy Sosa. Raffy was the one pointing his finger a Congress with a B12 syringe hanging out his butt.

For all of his egregious, horrible faults as a "manager", I commend Matt Williams when asked about his name appearing in the Mitchell report when the Nats made the atrocious, unforgivable mistake of hiring him back in 2014: "Yeah, I did it. It was a mistake, I didn't do it again."

The Ohtani thing stinks worse than when I eat baked beans for breakfast.

1 minute ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Especially since it was what...9 transactions of 500k?

Eaxctly--another point:

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Yeah, Talk Nats comments has a guy who is a lawyer who said he used to work in financial fraud and you couldn’t transfer 500K without at least some type of callback and phone verification… so the translator would’ve had to have answered his phone and committed fraud pretending to be him etc… but I’m sure he has a wealth management team etc… there’s no way he could’ve moved 500k 9 times in a wire and no one knew

2 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

Life goal. Befriend a millionaire who gived you unfettered access to his/her bank account. 

I am in a Nats group on twitter, one of the guys brought this up:

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High net wealth desks in a bank can move sizable funds or have major credit lines access for transactions. As someone who has spent decades working w/ the top international banks, Ohtani’s story of not having full knowledge isn’t plausible. Even if his interpreter had access to the credit line, a flag will go up when it is seen where the funds continue to be directed. Ohtani definitely would have been contacted at some point.

Things more believable than Ohtani's press conference: