Playing CF and batting 7th tonight.

ranks up with the Herz TJS as the most impactful injury of the season. Obliques often take a couple of months. This probably means he's out until after the ASB. I'm not a doctor or a trainer, but I play one in the peanut gallery.

https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/nasim-nunez-replaces-injured-dylan-crews-in-center-field-for-nationals

Does it though? It's not like Crews was raking.

CJ Abrams says he’s more comfortable at the plate. Sure looks like it.
When the Nationals shortstop visited Maven Baseball Lab this winter, he arrived with a swing that had gotten a bit out of whack. Changes followed.
Nusbaum:

Across his first three years in the majors, Abrams swung at the first pitch about 40 percent of the time — he’s now at 29.4 percent. He says he is only looking for middle-middle fastballs in an 0-0 count, a development supported by the first-pitch, down-the-pipe cutter he sent over the right-field wall in Baltimore on Sunday. He has improved his slugging percentage in 0-0 counts by more than 300 points.
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But his process goes much deeper than his selection. When Abrams visited Maven, the facility’s cameras and force plates captured a swing that had gotten a bit out of whack — a swing that prevented him from doing much damage on pitches at the edge of the zone. It “was almost like his left ear had a 10 pound dumbbell on it,” Krieger said. It was almost as if he was falling back toward the catcher. By the end of the winter, though, Krieger said they had seen changes that were “pretty, pretty drastic.”

His new set of mechanics put his body in a better position to crush well-located pitches on the corners. After hitting .201 with a .304 slugging percentage on pitches in the “shadow” of the zone last year, he’s hitting .327 with a .636 slugging percentage on those pitches. That is: from some of the worst marks in the majors to some of the best.
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Maven offered guidance for Abrams: for instance, keeping his nose in front of his belly button, and keeping his barrel less flat. Abrams brought his own perspective — like, when his feet were closer together, he felt his body forcing him to take longer strides that made him unbalanced. This season, he has increased his foot separation by about six inches. The stride, as a whole, is shorter and quicker.

Nusbaum suggests the Nats pushed better swing decisions while Maven adjusted his mechanics

ranks up with the Herz TJS as the most impactful injury of the season. Obliques often take a couple of months. This probably means he's out until after the ASB. I'm not a doctor or a trainer, but I play one in the peanut gallery.

https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/nasim-nunez-replaces-injured-dylan-crews-in-center-field-for-nationals

https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1554494977719144451?s=21&t=pZzivSEqx8YSGWKN1QTq8w

I’d have accepted this package for Soto. Really tough for him plus Bell.

We saved them from Hosmer contract? And don’t get more than that?

This is a disaster of a return.

I'm really high on Abrams, really low on Gore. If the Nats medical team is comfortably, I understand being high on Gore. I'm worried about any unhealthy pitcher after our issues with Strasburg.

Hosmer is a Red Sox, according to official MLB Twitter.

If Rizzo holds onto the Padres package as it stands minus Hosmer, the disaster level on this remains high but still lower than it could have been.

My early take here was pretty angry. Got less angry after Hosmer threw his fit. Did leave door open Gore being healthy could save this.

But bumping for this:

Some of these prospects will flame out. Just cross your fingers a couple pop.

I don't argue we have a bunch of exciting pieces in the farm and in rookie contract years. Only question is if it was enough.

James Wood is an elite young hitter. CJ Abrams is raking again. Gore is Nats #1. Hassell just called up. Susana is a Top 100 prospect, which is strong even if I think he ultimately ends up a reliever. I was way to negative on this treade!

We have a ton of other threads about what is going right/wrong for Nats, but damn the Nationals nailed the Soto trade. Made best of an unwinnable situation. I wanted the Cardinals package, so I'm glad I did not get my way.