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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #325: September 18, 2024, 10:27:38 AM »
Our Vic continues to innovate when it comes to bonehead moves

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #326: September 18, 2024, 01:39:34 PM »
if it wasn't two outs, bases loaded, with a 3-0 count on the batter and a pitcher who had walked or hit the previous three batters, the steal looked good.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #327: September 19, 2024, 03:18:08 PM »
I was watching another random MLB game and they were laughing about Vic's bonehead move.

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« Reply #328: September 19, 2024, 03:45:53 PM »
not sure what was worse, Vic, or the guy getting picked off at 3rd last night representing the tying run and the Mariners losing.


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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #331: September 23, 2024, 11:10:16 AM »
An argument that Floro was done in by workload and park dynamics:
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/giving-floro-his-flowers/

Would love to see him back next year.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #332: September 23, 2024, 11:26:50 AM »
Vic still hitting in September: .440 BA / 1.076 OPS

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #333: September 23, 2024, 04:26:59 PM »
An argument that Floro was done in by workload and park dynamics:
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/giving-floro-his-flowers/

Would love to see him back next year.

Bring him back.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #334: September 24, 2024, 01:51:24 AM »
An argument that Floro was done in by workload and park dynamics:
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/giving-floro-his-flowers/

Would love to see him back next year.

No.  We don’t need a dinosaur that throws in the 80s

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #335: September 24, 2024, 10:01:56 AM »
No.  We don’t need a dinosaur that throws in the 80s
do we have 8 better options?

Finnegan, Ferrer, ...

Law? Garcia? Salazar? Rainey? Brzykcy?

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #336: September 24, 2024, 04:26:18 PM »
MAT DFA'd again.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #337: October 03, 2024, 04:01:38 AM »
Joe Ross got the win last night for Milwaukee!

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #338: October 03, 2024, 08:39:36 AM »
Joe Ross got the win last night for Milwaukee!
loved Joe Ross for the cajones in Game 5 of the WS. That game set up game 7.


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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #341: October 12, 2024, 03:04:32 PM »
We used to cheer for Lane Thomas.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #342: October 12, 2024, 03:07:40 PM »
We used to cheer for Lane Thomas.

Some of us still do...

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #343: October 20, 2024, 09:45:13 PM »
Then there is Anthony Banda. I heard the name, and my memory sebt up an alarm...didn't he pitch for the Nats last year? And, yes, he did. Pitched in 10 games, with a 6.50 ERA over 7 innings. Started a few games for Rochester.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #344: October 31, 2024, 01:21:41 AM »
After tonight’s game, Daniel Hudson announced his retirement.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #345: October 31, 2024, 07:09:33 AM »
Was he on the Dodgers in 2020? I'll guess that 3 might have tied him with Betts for most WS wins among active players when he retires.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #346: October 31, 2024, 09:20:36 AM »
Was he on the Dodgers in 2020? I'll guess that 3 might have tied him with Betts for most WS wins among active players when he retires.

No. He was still in DC until traded mid-season in '21.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #347: November 01, 2024, 07:58:53 PM »
Was he on the Dodgers in 2020? I'll guess that 3 might have tied him with Betts for most WS wins among active players when he retires.
actually, Mookie and Joe Kelly are the two with 3 world series wins.

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Re: The Former Nationals Watch (2024)
« Reply #348: Yesterday at 02:11:26 PM »
Matt Hague played in AAA for the Nats back in 2018 in his last season. He's now a highly-regarded assistant hitting coach for the Jays. Here's a link to a profile and discussion with Dave Laurila:
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/torontos-matt-hague-talks-hitting/

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Laurila: Training-wise, are you a believer in hitters preparing against specific pitchers — I’m thinking Trajekt — as opposed to training against, say, velocity in general?

Hague: “Yeah. Massively. Especially given swing paths. You can’t take the same swing off of a high-vert four-seam as a turbo downhill fastball. Without a doubt. You have to gear your swing path. And depending on how slow the offspeed is, how much time do you need to buy off the fastball? How much do you have to extend your move, or hold certain positions longer?

“You want to be game planning towards that, and then, hopefully through environment training over time, it becomes a very in-sync system to where you can have those talks with players, understanding what they’re working on today versus the guy they’ll be facing. And then you’ve got the whole puzzle of the relievers. It’s also understanding what the pitchers’ strengths are, what they tend to do. Are they throwing away from hitters’ damage zones or are they just sticking to their own strengths?”