The ultimate Nats 1B, Joe Judge, was playing SS in sandlot or HS ball when his postman told him to switch to 1B. Clutch hitter and always fielded like a SS. TSame as Hernandez and Mattingly. Maybe that's Yoyo. And, sadly, maybe that will be Holiday for somebofy else

I'm not 100% sure how the nba aprons work, but the second apron penalties restricting the ability to trade and losing out-year picks seem to have bite

Baseball will never have a hard cap, but I think MLB could realistically adjust to borrow some MLB ideas. I'd make a wage floor somehow tied to the average MLB rev share. If you don't hit it, you lose the difference between that average and your underpayment.

No salary "cap" but copy MLB in the idea of NBA apron. Once you reach a "cap", maybe current luxury tax, you get light penalties like minor haircut to international pool, beginning of luxury tax, some penaltiy on comp pics, limit on how much money you can take on in a trade. Then toss in a second cap that hits teams like Mets and Dodgers, where you take a real haircut on international pool, painful tax, loss of comp pic, requiring any trades to reduce your payroll. I'd let them sign any FA, but they couldn't easily eat an arbitration player from a small market club.

I think a salary floor would have to be target at more the bottom third of teas than just a look at Pirates and Marlins. You'd need a lot payrolls raising to make up for Mets, Dodgers having air taken out of their balloons and Yankees, Phillies being afraid of flirting with this line.

I thought Nussbaum missed the boat when he emphasized how 15 of the 20 picks were college kids. The story is that 4 of the top 5 were HS kids and the 5th looks like a guy who should sign for underslot. Add in that 5 picks (6-10) were seniors who should sign for just a few thousand each and you see this draft was a big play for high upside young talent rather than quick to the majors college kids

It feels like a very mediocre draft all around,not just the Nats. Now it boils down to the ability to develop.

They were calling him Mooooose.  Cause he’s from Canada. 🫎

what do they call Mainers? "Lobster" just doesn't have a ballpark ring

I don't know how many uniformed players and coaches ended up on each team, but it would seem it was more than the regular season roster.  Guessing they actually asked players to hit the showers, and hit the road, when they were thru playing so that there was more room for everyone at the end of the game...just a guess...

Also guessing Judge and Ohtani knew they weren't going to be named the game MVP...

Yeah, and I don't really begrudge these guys getting a jump on salvaging some semblance of a break. I bet MLB encourages it. in an effort to get the stars to participate.

The Rosters are 34 players per league. I also think there are more coaches than normal.