The Nats Thread

[hutch]

Bwahahahaha. Dusty Baker. Good God.

well we can't all get someone as gifted as brad ausmus...

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

Bwahahahaha. Dusty Baker. Good God.

well we can't all get someone as gifted as brad ausmus...

I knew someone would say this, but you do understand Dusty Baker is worse than Brad Ausmus (who is, a bottom 10 manager in MLB) by a factor of like 2 or 3, right?

[shemptiness]

James Wagner:

The Nationals have been reluctant to pay top dollar for managers in the past. Their standard practice has been two-year deals with options, which Matt Williams, Jim Riggleman and Manny Acta signed. Riggleman made $600,000 his final year as manager in 2011. Even veteran manager Davey Johnson worked under a shorter-term deal. He made $4 million his final year as manager in 2013 after much lower pay before and had a modest consulting year added on for 2014. Williams, fired the day after the 2015 season ended, was due to make $1 million in 2016.

[hutch]

James Wagner:

The Nationals have been reluctant to pay top dollar for managers in the past. Their standard practice has been two-year deals with options, which Matt Williams, Jim Riggleman and Manny Acta signed. Riggleman made $600,000 his final year as manager in 2011. Even veteran manager Davey Johnson worked under a shorter-term deal. He made $4 million his final year as manager in 2013 after much lower pay before and had a modest consulting year added on for 2014. Williams, fired the day after the 2015 season ended, was due to make $1 million in 2016.

look...I agree they are cheap but there wasn't any great manager out there to be hired....ozzie Guillen?

bud black has a losing record.. I ain't going to pay him much either...

now if girardi had been out there I would have wanted the nats to make a run..

i'm not sure why dusty is considered such a horrible manager... won some division titles, made it to a world series...won manager of the year once... nearly 20 years experience managing in the NL

he's a little past his prime and also has a reputation for mishandling pitchers (blowing out their arms)..that is about all I know

anyways, I would have hired cal ripken jr. but this ain't the worst choice they could have made..

hiring matt Williams a few years ago.. that WAS the worst choice.

[ggw]

...won manager of the year once...

Three times.

[vansmack]

i'm not sure why dusty is considered such a horrible manager... won some division titles, made it to a world series...won manager of the year once three times... nearly 20 years experience managing in the NL

he's a little past his prime and also has a reputation for mishandling pitchers (blowing out their arms)..that is about all I know

That time, in the 2002 World Series, where he gave the game ball to the starting pitcher in the 7th inning with a 5-0 lead, thinking he had done enough to win them the World Series?

[hutch]

i'm not sure why dusty is considered such a horrible manager... won some division titles, made it to a world series...won manager of the year once three times... nearly 20 years experience managing in the NL

he's a little past his prime and also has a reputation for mishandling pitchers (blowing out their arms)..that is about all I know

That time, in the 2002 World Series, where he gave the game ball to the starting pitcher in the 7th inning with a 5-0 lead, thinking he had done enough to win them the World Series?

yeah well...lots of people do that.. at least they were in the world series...and I hope he has learned..


i'm getting more and more behind this choice....

[vansmack]

#Nationals have lost a court battle with #Orioles re TV rights fees. Click to read up on the ruling & what it means: http://bit.ly/1iDuQf0

https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/662002743704338432

[hutch]

#Nationals have lost a court battle with #Orioles re TV rights fees. Click to read up on the ruling & what it means: http://bit.ly/1iDuQf0

https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/662002743704338432

i don't want to know.. it can't be good...

[shemptiness]

The Nats 2016 calendar


And the hits just keep on coming.

[vansmack]

Bwahahahaha. Dusty Baker. Good God.

Day Two of the Winter Meetings and I'm reminded how much I miss guys like Dusty Baker:

ESPN.com's SweetSpot ‏@espn_sweet_spot

Dusty Baker's comments a reminder baseball has a long way to go on domestic violence es.pn/1PWUcTZ

[vansmack]

Get on this:

The @Nationals are looking for people to fill its Racing Presidents costumes. Here's the job description
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/674658580021276673/photo/1

[grateful]

Get on this:

The @Nationals are looking for people to fill its Racing Presidents costumes. Here's the job description
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/674658580021276673/photo/1

oooooooooh!

[vansmack]

Nationals acquire P Trevor Gott from Anaheim for IF Yunel Escobar

That .314 last season was a blip, right?  I shouldn't expect that....

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

Get on this:

The @Nationals are looking for people to fill its Racing Presidents costumes. Here's the job description
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/674658580021276673/photo/1

oooooooooh!

If we tune in and there's a new President Chipotle mascot, we'll know jaded won.