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OUCH! That Stove is HOT!
Posted on 9 Jan 2012 by Marien Hornyak.
The NBA has started its strike-shortened season. The NHL is going strong. The NFL playoffs are in full swing (that Broncos-Steelers game was an exciting one!). While all these leagues have been entertaining us on the field, ice, court and TV, Major League Baseball has been very busy with their so-called “Hot Stove League,” where players are wheeled and dealed (or should I say “dealt...
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“Hope and Change” the “Nationals” Way
Posted on 9 Sep 2011 by Marien Hornyak.
This has been an up-and-down week for the Washington Nationals. Tough losses, games played in lousy weather (with rainouts and rain delays), the debut of several young players and the return of pitcher Stephen Strasburg. The Nationals started the week with a heartbreaking 6-3 loss to the New York Mets. What made it difficult was that the loss went to starting pitcher Liván Hernandez, who ma...
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“Oh, my Elbow!”
Posted on 21 Aug 2011 by Marien Hornyak.
When the Phillies come to town to play against the Washington Nationals, they bring busloads of fans with them. Since it is easier to get tickets for a game at Nationals Park than it is at Citizens Bank Park, many Phillies fans make the three-hour trip to DC and try to take over the ballpark. They wear their Howard and Polanco jerseys and try to cheer louder than the Nats fans. This weeke...
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Jonny, Be Good (PLEASE!)
Posted on 27 Jul 2011 by Marien Hornyak.
In an effort to answer manager Davey Johnson’s request for “a better bench,” the Washington Nationals just traded two minor-league players to the Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Jonny Gomes. The trade deadline is still a few days away, but Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo is already wheeling and dealing to try and give his team some depth in the outfield. Surely this won’t be the Nationals...
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EATING RAUL
Posted on 6 May 2011 by Christopher Rowe.
0 for 35 For those who declared Raul Ibanez and/or his career as an everyday major league ballplayer “dead” at the age of 39, guess again. No one would have blamed you when Ibanez was mired in an 0-for-35 slump sporting a sub-Mendoza average with some positively paltry offensive numbers. Was Ibanez simply losing it or was there a nagging injury that he hadn’t told anyone? This is a man wh...
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Series Win Still Leaves A Sour Taste
Posted on 8 Apr 2011 by Brendan Tobin.
Every team goes into a three game set looking to win the series. But when the Marlins see the Nationals on the calendar they’re thinking sweep. That’s not just by reputation. The Fish have dominated NL East’s cellar dwellers since the end of 2007. Florida is 42-15 in that span. The first two games of the series reflected the record. The Marlins picked up a walk off win Tuesday on Donni...
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Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Just The General Manager: Part 2
Posted on 5 Jul 2010 by Joseph Davis.
Brian Sabean has made great deals, he's made poor deals. He's made deals which earned him undeserved criticism, and he's made deals in which proper credit never came. Part Two of this four-part series analyzes the top 7 acquisitions of his tenure—with the exception of the two re-signings of Barry Bonds which came at the behest of upper, upper management. Criteria for ranking includes not ...
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Silva, Zambrano, and winning
Posted on 19 May 2010 by Eddie Kim.
It looks like the Carlos Zambrano experiment is over. A day after manager Lou Piniella announced that Zambrano would be stretched out in the bullpen for the purposes of re-entering him into the rotation, Piniella asked Zambrano to close out Colorado by pitching the ninth inning of Tuesday's 6-2 win over the Rockies. But we shouldn't read too much into that: it was a move made out of necessity. ...
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Why Livan Hernandez is the best pitcher in the National League
Posted on 17 Apr 2010 by Sam Diament.
Ok, fine, I am exaggerating a little bit. Livan has made two starts this year. April 11 @ NYM: 7.0 innings, 5 hits, 3 bb, 1 so, 88 pitches April 17 vs. MIL: 9.0 innings, 4 hits, 2 bb, 3 so, 112 pitches He won both, and here is why: the Nationals gave him an early lead, and Livan proceeded to pound the strike zone. Of the 200 pitches he has thrown, 121 of them have been strikes. The best wa...
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The Rest of the Story
Posted on 3 Jun 2009 by Ryan Moore.
And now . . . time for news! The Nationals fired pitching Randy St. Claire because they're terrible and they're not quite ready to fire the manager. Give them a week. St. Claire was with the organization for seven years, and in that time he accomplished some pretty good things for a pretty bad team. He turned around Livan Hernandez's career, giving us all years of slow, fat en...
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