2025 Off-season - general thread

[ChiliPalmer14]

I'll play GM and assume the Lerners would spend some money...

Sign Santander, Jack Flaherty and a decent bullpen arm, even at a small overpay for each.

Three way trade with the White Sox and Red Sox.  Red Sox get Garrett Crochet and Andres Chapparo, White Sox get Robert Hassell III and Vaughn Grissom.  Nats get Tristan Casas.  Red Sox extend Crochet, move Devers to 1B, sign Alex Bregman.  Chapparro being the back up for 1B/3B/DH.

SS Abrams
RF Crews
LF Wood
DH Santander
1B Casas
3B Tena or House
2B Garcia, Jr.
C Ruiz
CF Young

Gore
Flaherty
Irvin
Herz
Cavalli

Mitchell Parker and added piece (David Robertson?) to the bullpen.  Hopefully Thompson is back and good.

I think that improves the win total by five or six next season.  Hopefully some culling happens as Cayden Wallace, Seaver King, Dickerson, Sykora, Susanna, Yoyo Morales and Alex Clemmey become MLB ready.  Or even an Elijah Green miracle.  Then the win totals creep up by a couple a year for the next six years. 

I'm just having some fun...

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I'll play GM and assume the Lerners would spend some money...

Sign Santander, Jack Flaherty and a decent bullpen arm, even at a small overpay for each.

Three way trade with the White Sox and Red Sox.  Red Sox get Garrett Crochet and Andres Chapparo, White Sox get Robert Hassell III and Vaughn Grissom.  Nats get Tristan Casas.  Red Sox extend Crochet, move Devers to 1B, sign Alex Bregman.  Chapparro being the back up for 1B/3B/DH.

SS Abrams
RF Crews
LF Wood
DH Santander
1B Casas
3B Tena or House
2B Garcia, Jr.
C Ruiz
CF Young

Gore
Flaherty
Irvin
Herz
Cavalli

Mitchell Parker and added piece (David Robertson?) to the bullpen.  Hopefully Thompson is back and good.

I think that improves the win total by five or six next season.  Hopefully some culling happens as Cayden Wallace, Seaver King, Dickerson, Sykora, Susanna, Yoyo Morales and Alex Clemmey become MLB ready.  Or even an Elijah Green miracle.  Then the win totals creep up by a couple a year for the next six years. 

I'm just having some fun...

I think the White Sox can beat Grissom and Hassell for Crochet. Casas is probably tradeable if Bregman is signed, but that's a big if.

[varoadking]

Svrluga begs the Nats to spend: https://wapo.st/4gpEFuC

Lotta good that's gonna do...

[IanRubbish]

Lotta good that's gonna do...

Can only imagine how the doofus owner and his friend Rizzo plan to respond.  Usually, they respond to bad press by BS'ing fans and the media, let's see if they get creative.

[varoadking]

Can only imagine how the doofus owner and his friend stooge Rizzo plan to respond.  Usually, they respond to bad press by BS'ing fans and the media, let's see if they get creative.

FIFY...

[Slateman]

https://x.com/ryanzimmergoat/status/1866323072015319540?s=46

Alex Call is gonna be a star guys

[varoadking]

https://x.com/ryanzimmergoat/status/1866323072015319540?s=46

Alex Call is gonna be a star guys

Of course...somewhere else...

[madj55]

Promo schedule released and they have two Jacob Young bobblehead nights…guess the OF is set.

Crews should be starting in CF, but it is what it is.

[Natsinpwc]

Promo schedule released and they have two Jacob Young bobblehead nights…guess the OF is set.

Crews should be starting in CF, but it is what it is.

Who would RF be then?  This seems the least of their issues.  Need 1B/3B/DG and a SP.  And bullpen. 

[Slateman]

Who would RF be then?  This seems the least of their issues.  Need 1B/3B/DG and a SP.  And bullpen. 

Our superstar, Alex Call

[OfftheBat]

Svrluga begs the Nats to spend: https://wapo.st/4gpEFuC

lol, wonder if Mark is gonna read this piece 

[welch]

TalkNats said:

There are six arb-eligible players since Abrams did not make the Super-Two cutoff. The current active payroll that includes estimates with the team’s arb-eligible players is at $36.8 million and CBT payroll is $71.8 million with Stephen Strasburg. The full CBT payroll with all of the add-ons is at $92.7 million. Last season’s $137.3 million in payroll on Opening Day per ESPN was 21st in baseball because of that $35 million to Strasburg. The Nats are currently at $44.6 million below that number. That is potentially great news, and by the way, two years from today, Strasburg will be off of the CBT payroll.

If Rizzo is just shopping with $44.6 million, he could get any player but Juan Soto. Hopefully Rizzo has more than $45 million to shop with because of all of the needs. Great middle-of-the-order bats start with annual price tags of at least $20 million. A good closer will be at $10 million or more, and a good starter at about $15 million. The math is quite simple: 2 x $20M + $10M + $15M = $65 million. And that is at least $65 million. That would take the Nats to $158 million

https://www.talknats.com/2024/12/03/winter-meetings-shopping-list-for-the-washington-nationals/

If I'm spending the Lerners money, I'd buy Bregman at $30 million /yr for three years with an option for a fourth year. If House is real in a coule years, then Bregman goes to first. Christian Walker for about $10 million per. And stretch the Lerners for another $20 million for a reliable starter, but not an ace, at $15 million and a respectable reliever.

[HalfSmokes]

Rizzo probably has closer to $6 million than $65 million to spend on free agents

[Slateman]

TalkNats said:

https://www.talknats.com/2024/12/03/winter-meetings-shopping-list-for-the-washington-nationals/

If I'm spending the Lerners money, I'd buy Bregman at $30 million /yr for three years with an option for a fourth year. If House is real in a coule years, then Bregman goes to first. Christian Walker for about $10 million per. And stretch the Lerners for another $20 million for a reliable starter, but not an ace, at $15 million and a respectable reliever.

Bregman has a 150 million dollar offer on the table from the Astros. Also, he's a cheater

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Bregman has a 150 million dollar offer on the table from the Astros. Also, he's a cheater

Walker also will get more than $10 million, but I'd put 3 years, $18 AAV on the table. That's probably just the entry fee.

[IanRubbish]

Nats got the #1 pick

[HalfSmokes]

No need for free agents now that the team has something to sell the fans on

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Nats got the #1 pick

happy Hollidays to you.

[varoadking]

Nats got the #1 pick

Hope they don't freak this up...

[varoadking]

No need for free agents now that the team has something to sell the fans on

His signing bonus will break the Lerner's 2025 budget anyway...

[wj73]

Nats got the #1 pick

 

[Dave in Fairfax]

Yay, a slighly higher draft pick and another excuse to pretend like this is all part of some master plan and not a reflection of the fact that ownership really doesn't want to own a baseball team but also does not want to sell into weakness.

Rizzo's comment on MLB Network to the effect that "now is not the time to step on the brakes nor hit the gas" tells you all you need to know about what to expect this offseason.

[Natsinpwc]

Yay, a slighly higher draft pick and another excuse to pretend like this is all part of some master plan and not a reflection of the fact that ownership really doesn't want to own a baseball team but also does not want to sell into weakness.

Rizzo's comment on MLB Network to the effect that "now is not the time to step on the brakes nor hit the gas" tells you all you need to know about what to expect this offseason.

Sigh.

[USF_Football]

I did some shots of Sasaki last night prior to falling asleep... and what a good sleep it was. I had dreams about the wonderful Hollidays that lie ahead for us... one can only hope, right? On a different note, living in Texas, we don't hear as much around the water cooler concerning my Nationals. Did the younger Lerners even entertain bringing my boy Soto back to DC... like even dinner on the Potomac?   

[SkinsNatFan21RIP]

happy Hollidays to you.

I think Laviolette has a very serious chance of being our pick.