Dusty retires. I didn’t love him as Nats manager but I am very happy he got his ring last year, that man has had one hell of a career
I was in the camp of I would not have hired him (truth, I may have wanted Davey) but if I had hired him then I would not have fired him. I think he was a terrific regular season manager who was weaker the shorter the time he had to deliver on was. That is, terrific over 162, not good over 7, worse over 5, and horrible in a must win game. I give him props for working with Michael Taylor, who had a great offensive year to go with his D in 2017. I thought he did well with kids in 2016-17 while not burning out vets. Helped he had peak Daniel Murphy, too. I think he also handled the Desmond to Espinosa to Trea transition pretty well. That he had great teams in 2016 and 2017 but couldn't get out of the divisional round was a failure, but that should have been known as a risk going in. I don't think the guy ever won a game 7 in the playoffs. To me, he was better than I thought he'd be in the regular season. I would have liked him to have had the 2018 team.