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Fantasy baseball forecaster for Week 3: Aug. 10-16
Hitter matchup ratings for the next 10 days Week 3 hitting ratings Week 3 pitcher rankings Major League Baseball announced a number of scheduling changes during the past week, and the Week 3 schedule already includes a pair of them: The Detroit Tigers are slated to host the St. Louis Cardinals in a doubleheader at […]
Continue readingJuan Soto to make 2020 debut for Nationals, batting cleanup
The slugger failed a coronavirus test — he later said he thought it was a false positive — and went on the injured list on July 23. He missed Washington’s first eight games of the truncated season. Soto was reinstated from the IL on Tuesday but didn’t play in a 5-3 victory over the Mets, […]
Continue readingJuan Soto still needs D.C. clearance to return for Nationals; Stephen Strasburg scratched again
Manager Dave Martinez said the Nationals hope their 21-year-old slugger will be allowed to work out with the team starting Saturday and play in their first game after that — which is next Tuesday at home against the New York Mets. Soto, who had 34 homers and 110 RBIs during the 2019 regular season and […]
Continue readingWin the World Series? Maybe! What 2020 could bring for all 30 MLB teams
“Every character should want something,” Kurt Vonnegut advised in “Creative Writing 101,” “even if it is only a glass of water.” Major League Baseball, like all professional sports, like all high-level competition, has always had a lot of glasses of water. Fans care because the players care so much for those glasses of water: They […]
Continue readingStephen Strasburg: Nationals’ protocol-heavy trip to Baltimore ‘intense’
With all the protocols in place, Stephen Strasburg got a good feel Monday night for what pitching on the road will entail this season during the coronavirus pandemic. Last year’s World Series MVP threw five strong innings for Washington in a 4-2 exhibition win over the Baltimore Orioles. Nationals manager Dave Martinez said the team […]
Continue readingRecapping MLB’s offseason moves, from blockbusters to those you probably forgot
At times, it feels like we are all trapped in one of the dream levels in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” except instead of time moving faster, it slows down. Way back last winter, which nobody remembers because it happened 100 years ago, we had a baseball offseason. Players signed with new teams, trades were made and […]
Continue readingNationals resume training camp after receiving results from COVID-19 tests
General manager Mike Rizzo said the team felt confident about getting back to Nationals Park for practices after receiving all player and staff test results from Friday. The American League champion Houston Astros also canceled workouts Monday and resumed Tuesday. “They’re still trying to iron out the bugs,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. “No one’s […]
Continue readingAn 82-game season? A universal DH? Key takeaways from MLB’s 2020 proposal
MLB owners approved a proposal that aims to have Major League Baseball back in early July, sources told ESPN. Commissioner Rob Manfred reportedly plans to present the proposal to players Tuesday. While player safety playing during the coronavirus pandemic and financial questions about compensation for a shortened season will be at the top of the […]
Continue readingRanking every World Series in MLB history
The World Series begins with only one promise: It will produce a winner. It won’t assure us a compelling story, though it does often deliver. It won’t guarantee seven nights of entertainment, though we’re frequently so blessed. There’s no pledge that we’ll remember more than one or two things about it 20 years later, but […]
Continue readingWho could be this year’s Nationals? How all 30 MLB teams stack up
Only one World Series favorite entering the season actually won the World Series in the decade we just completed. Wait, let’s put that another way: A team that was one of the top five favorites entering the season won the World Series only once over the past decade. The 2019 Washington Nationals didn’t necessarily feel […]
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