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Fedde freaking sucks. Voth him
I don't believe Fedde has a future in MLB. He tops out at 91 with his fastball and his other stuff is not special.
Who was the Nationals’ best player in 2022? Before you try to answer, I should acknowledge that this is not a fair question to ask. For starters, it’s a trick question. More importantly, you haven’t been watching the Nationals. You’ve been doing the best you can to avoid even thinking about the Nationals. That’s called self-care, and I commend you for it. Even the Nationals’ general manager called it “a daily grind to come here and lose baseball games.” He also called trading Juan Soto a “courageous move by ownership,” so maybe don’t listen to him.Regardless, go ahead and give it a shot! Keibert Ruiz would be a reasonable guess. The promising young catcher posted 1.7 WAR this season. You could also be forgiven for going with Joey Meneses, who put up 1.5 WAR in just 228 plate appearances since his promotion in August.Soto, who got traded to San Diego midway through the least Juan Soto year of his career, has still been the most valuable contributor to the withered husk of the 2022 Nationals. Bell, who also got sent to the Padres, is second at 2.5 WAR, well above both Ruiz and Meneses, though his struggles in San Diego have brought his WAR back down to an even 2.0 for the season. On the pitching side, the Nationals’ most valuable arm is still on the team, but that’s mostly because they didn’t have anyone worth trading. Reliever Hunter Harvey led the staff with 1.0 WAR in 37.1 innings; there isn’t a single starter on the roster with an ERA under 4.25 or a FIP under 4.5.Look too closely at the Washington leaderboard and you start asking existential questions: Why am I doing this to myself? Where are the Andrew Stevensons of yesteryear? What is an Alex Call?I’m not saying all this to just pick on the Nationals. Plenty of teams find themselves in this situation; they just happen to be the best example by virtue of being the worst team in the league. But which other teams are flying into the offseason in the missing man formation?
