Why keep him. So the Nats could finish fourth in the NL East instead of 5th next year?
The division isn’t great and it’s not exactly getting any better next year. Strasburg would be back, Gray would have more experience and maybe Corbin pitches out of this funk (I seriously doubt it) but then there’s Cavalli as well. So you would have a decent nucleus of Turner, Soto, Ruiz, Garcia, Keiboom etc and potentially better pitching plus the ability to add more talent in the off-season. Maybe by that point they could come to an agreement with Trea and keep him around but it is what it is. He’s a tremendous player and it’s disappointing that’s all.
