What senile old Tommy LaSorda says about the Nats should be completely irrelevant as to how we view our team.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. How we view the players that make the team and take the field, is of course irrelevant to those types of statements. How we view the people making the decisions that affects those players is relevant to comments like those LaSorda and others have made that were obviously fed to them by the FO.
Are you really referring to how long they've hung in there with Stairs? I'm not sure there were a bunch of moves available to Rizzo that he failed to make.
Outside of one hit Stares hasn't contributed anything to the team this season that's quantifiable. I might be forgetting something Stares did so I apologize in advance but there's little I can see that he's done on the field outside of that one hit that's helped the team.
It would seem they've found another lefty specialist (Romero) who is likely to join the team soon. Wang could be the long man/swinger before July is finished. Bixler seems to be contributed now, and Cora's been reasonable useful though a better bat would be nice.
Bixler and Cora have been great additions as has Hairston, the other two guys you mentioned (Romero and Wang) are still question marks at this time. It would great if they could contribute to the MLB squad but at this time that's still to be seen.
I'm really excited about the team too, and can certainly see us being competitive for years to come. Are gloomy because you think we'll have trouble closing >= .500 with the bench we've got?
As of right now we will be in serious trouble if the starting pitching collapses or we suffer another injury setback. Bixler, while great on the basepaths and decent in the field, doesn't have much to offer in the way of a bat; the same is true of Cora. My main beef with Stares is that he's less than half of a player - he can't run or field and his bat is lacking to say the least.
