I/M/O, I think the "oh, we have to be lousy because we have $60 million tied up in Stras and Corbin" is a bit of BS. Stras is a little less damaging than Corbin because he's not losing once every 5th day (an exaggeration - Corbin is better than that), but instead of spending just $60 million on top of the lame contracts (counting Harris as well) to field a horrid team, they could have spent $80 million and had a team that could have competed for the wild card. The attendance and vibe in town would have been better too. They did not have to be this bad simply because of Stras's money.
Plus 15 million tied up in Scherzer.
It takes a really good farm system to compete at 80 million. The Nats dont have that. And they havent even invested in it until last offseason.
