Zimmerman is the old head Nat fan's favorite player. If you moved here after 2012, you were probably a Harper guy. Harper guys seamlessly moved to Soto. If you showed up basically starting in 2018, you're a Soto guy.
Strasburg and Scherzer were always very popular, but I think it favorite players in DC went Zim-Harper-Soto-....maybe Abrams? With Trea Turner being right up there with them and the pitchers
There was a moment before his injury that Stephen Strasburg was as big a story as any player the Nationals have ever had. I have been to Nationals playoff games, including the first ones in 2012, and a World Series game. I went to his fifth or sixth home start and I think that home game atmosphere stood up maybe not at World Series level, but damn close with an early crowd and fans treating a 2 strike count in the second inning like the ninth inning of a playoff game. The injury dimmed that a bit.