Trying really hard to understand why people care about where the Nats AAA team in located...
It affects how quickly we can get a guy to the major league team, not to mention players don't have to fly cross-country to meet up with the major league squad.
For example, the NYY have a AAA team in Scranton, 2 hours from the city. They literally have the "Scranton shuttle" for relievers because they can call up/send down guys quickly as they need a fresh arm. We can't do that; sending players cross country back and forth is not good for anyone.
If we need to call up someone quickly, it's basically impossible right now to get them here the same day. Say it's noon, and it turns out Max is scratched because he's sick. OK, Fedde/long reliever starts in his place, but then we're short a bullpen arm. There's no direct Fresno-to-DC flights IIRC, so they have to connect, complicating things, too. So the soonest we can get a guy on a plane is, say, 11 AM PT, which is 2 PM in DC. It's then a six-hour flight to DC, so he maybe lands at first pitch, but he's probably unavailable.
If we had a team in Nashville, there are multiple flights to DC every day and connecting flights through Atlanta even more frequently, plus it's a short flight.
