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The Farm / Re: Follow the Prospects: Elijah Green, OF
« Last post by welch on Yesterday at 04:43:11 pm »Maybe A+ is too much? Or maybe it will take a month or so before the adjusts. Looking back, he was the fifth player taken that year...
 
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The Clubhouse / Re: Toboni: Not just a Jabroni for POBO
« Last post by welch on Yesterday at 04:16:45 pm »Probably. Hard to say. Ferrer fixes the pen, but hes definitely better than everyone else.
Will never understand the Bennett trade. Dude was a copy of Connelly Early.
Toboni lost all three trades, unless Fien turns out to be the next Gunnar Henderson...and Henderson is good, but not an annual All-Star. The other prospects look like career .250-hitting minor leaguers. Ortiz sometimes has had some pop, but not at Rochester. Fitz-Gerald? Maybe another utility infielder who tops out at AAA.
And Ferrer is an ugly loss to what was a terrible bullpen. Last season, DeBartolo traded Finnegan for a nobody and an A-player who is hurt, while Finnegan was good enough that the Tigers signed him to a nice extension.
Every year, Rizzo used to find a guy like Andrew Chafin, with that great relief-pitcher's mustache, and old guy who could manage an ERA about 3.50. Toboni has filled out the bullpen with young-ish relief pitchers who never were any good, and who blow up game after game.
Maybe Toboni will turn out better, when the Nats have become a "drafting and development monster". It is early, the "drafting and development" is still talk.
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The Out of Town Scoreboard / Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2026)
« Last post by JCA-CrystalCity on Yesterday at 02:57:37 pm »Ouch. Did the Nats get more than Gavin Fien for him? Fitz-Gerald and Ortiz look like lottery tickets. Right now, it looks like Toboni has lost his trades. Of course, it is too early to judge whether he has made progress toward a "drafting and development monster".I think Fitz-Gerald is not as much of a long shot as "lottery ticket" implies. Cabrera is more of a long shot but interesting.
The big disappointment in the trade is the Rosario arm situation. They knew there was a problem and it looks like they didn't do due diligence on the lack of surgery last year.
I will be disappointed if both Rosario and Perales end up washing out like the pitcher we got for Schwarber.
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The Clubhouse / Re: Things that are better than off-days (2026)
« Last post by Copecwby20 on Yesterday at 02:08:48 pm »I think at this point we should be talking about things that are better than game days.
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The Clubhouse / Re: Extension candidates
« Last post by IdahoNat on Yesterday at 02:06:03 pm »Jacob Young for 15 years/400 million.
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The Clubhouse / Re: Things that are better than off-days (2026)
« Last post by varoadking on Yesterday at 01:59:06 pm »Flying to DC for the weekend and realizing there are no Nats home games to waste money on
You win the day...
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The Clubhouse / Re: Things that are better than off-days (2026)
« Last post by Natsinpwc on Yesterday at 01:45:21 pm »Flying to DC for the weekend and realizing there are no Nats home games to waste money on
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The Clubhouse / Re: Things that are better than off-days (2026)
« Last post by Squab on Yesterday at 01:41:04 pm »being told at work to "be careful about what you say to that guy, his boss wants to replace you with AI"
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The Farm / Re: Follow the Prospects: Elijah Green, OF
« Last post by imref on Yesterday at 01:34:31 pm »he was showing some improvement last year, but this year....nuttin.
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The Clubhouse / Re: Things that are better than off-days (2026)
« Last post by varoadking on Yesterday at 01:32:18 pm »I got nothin'...