My Sunshine Squad optimism is starting 1-6 and rally to 5-7 by taking games off two World Series contenders is impressive. I was very nervous things were about to spiral out of control and they'd head on the road something like 2-10.
Playing on the road is always hard, but I think a .500 road trips and coming back to DC about 10-12 would be fine. Even better is definitely possible. Come back to DC around .500 and no reason they shouldn't hang around there for a bit.
My best case scenario for this season was always they scrap near .500 long enough into the season that Rizzo trades for a frontline starter -- they're always available for a price -- and see what happens down the stretch. Baseball seasons are marathons and weird things will happen. If they could be .500 when the Mets come to town in late April, that sets up a tough few week stretch where we see if this team is worth adding onto at the deadline versus another deadline sell off.
Problem with a sell off is we don't have that many assets that make sense. If any of Trevor Williams, DeJong, Soroka, Bell are doing enough that a team would give the Nationals more than 26 year old AA utility player, then the Nats probably are sitting on a record where they won't be selling.
