Posted in Baseball on Feb 22nd, 2010
Despite being the #1-overall pick in last year’s draft and having a ton of hype surrounding him, it looks like Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg will start the year in the minors. Manager Jim Riggleman was asked about Strasburg competing for a spot in the starting rotation.
“I wouldn’t really want to say that he’s [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Signings, Transactions on Feb 16th, 2010
According to William Ladson (who?) on Twitter, the Washington Nationals (that’s a baseball team) have agreed to terms with former New York Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang.
“The #Nats have agreed to terms with right-hander Chien-Ming Wang. The #Nats have not confirmed the agreement,” he tweets with appropriate use of hashtags.
We like this signing for the Natties. [...]
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Posted in Baseball on Jan 31st, 2010
Washington Nationals pitcher John Lannan said that he’s in great shape and even got eye surgery recently, according to some dude’s Washington Nationals Twitter page.
“#Nats RHP John Lannan said he is in the best shape of his career. He also had lasik surgery this offseason,” he tweets while getting his throwing arm incorrect.
Lannan had a [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Signings, Transactions on Dec 21st, 2009
According to ESPN’s Buster Olney, the Washington Nationals have inked starting pitcher Jason Marquis to a two-year, $15 million deal.
“Confirmed: Washington has agreed to a two-year, $15 million deal with Jason Marquis, pending a physical,” he tweets.
He was 15-13 with a 4.04 ERA last year for the Colorado Rockies and he will most certainly [...]
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Posted in Baseball on Dec 16th, 2009
At the recent Winter Meetings, it surfaced that the Washington Nationals had interest in Colorado pitcher Jason Marquis. Now, it seem that the interest is mutual.
“I want to play for a team that is headed in the right direction and making the moves that is necessary to get themselves back to being a winning [...]
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Posted in Baseball on Nov 18th, 2009
A source tells MLBlogs.com that the Washington Nationals are interested in the services of free-agent John Lackey. Supposedly, they would be competing with the Angels, Red Sox, Yankees and Mets…all teams with more money than them.
We aren’t sure what kind of dough Washington would have to throw at Lackey in order for [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Mark Prior List on Aug 28th, 2009
Washington Nationals center fielder Nyjer Morgan broke his hand while sliding and will miss the remainder of the season. Morgan sustained the injury when he slid headfirst into third base during the first inning. He would later score on a double by Christian Guzman, and then leave the game for replacement Willie Harris.
Morgan was enjoying [...]
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Posted in Baseball on Aug 17th, 2009
Monday night is the deadline for the Washington Nationals to get a deal done with #1-overall pick Stephen Strasburg. Sources say that the Nationals currently have a $17 million deal on the table with easily attainable incentives that could push it north of $20 million.
The problem though is that Strasburg and total prick his [...]
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Posted in Baseball on Jul 15th, 2009
President Barack Obama dropped a huge explosion on the Nationals recently. Why…what did you think we were talking about? We have to get new headline writers here, this is getting out of control.
So yeah, anyway, the President recently said about MLB, “every team has a chance … except for the Nationals.”
Ouch! On [...]
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