I think Tom Boswell shoots himself in the foot with his numbers. The Washington Nationals are dead last in the major league with their team OPS of .708. What's even more embarrassing than that, is the fact that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have a team OPS above the league average. To add insult to injury, those same Devil Rays are also scoring more than 3/4 of a run per game more than the Nats are.
Saying Carroll and Guzman need to find their games is easy, and a cop out and its as much as saying they are responsible for the Nats lack of runs, when that's not the case. The reason the Nats aren't scoring runs, is they simply don't know how. Castilla and Wilson last year (and this for Wilson) had the help of a lineup tailored for Coors Field, Guillen had Guerrero, Anderson and company, Wilkerson, Church and Vidro had a better park to hit in...
These players don't know how to score runs without help... Is it next year yet?
