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The Toronto Blue Jays Perfectly Complemented Their Young Core This Offseason

Jan 30, 2020

Major League Baseball, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions, Toronto Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are the most exciting fourth-place team in Major League Baseball, and they've perfectly complemented their young core this offseason. The Blue Jays lineup is stacked with promising yout...

Improved Tanner Roark Could Be the Boost the Nationals Need

Robbie Stratakos

Mar 27, 2018

Opinions & Predictions, Washington Nationals

Tanner Roark is the forgotten man in the Washington Nationals rotation. But if he can bounce back from his underwhelming 2017 campaign, the righty could be the boost the Nats need to get out of the NLDS this se...

Ten Starting Pitchers to Watch in 2016

Ryan Blake

Mar 22, 2016

Features, Opinions & Predictions

As a baseball player of nearly 16 years who took the hill on occasion and a fan of a Baltimore Orioles team that has a recent history of mediocrity in the starting pitching department, I can confirm the old ada...

Five Storylines to Watch at Washington Nationals Spring Training

Joshua Sadlock

Feb 20, 2016

Features, Opinions & Predictions, Washington Nationals

Credit: Greg Fiume / Getty Images North America Things look a little different this year as the Washington Nationals open spring training. There's a new man steering the ship, as Dusty Baker, a player's man...

Tanner Roark set to rejoin Nationals rotation

Daniel Sherriff

May 22, 2015

Breaking News, Washington Nationals

The Washington Nationals appear to be making yet another change to their pitching rotation. Righty Tanner Roark faced live batters today at Nationals Park and appears set to be making his first start of 2015 ne...

Should Brandon Belt be More Aggressive at the Plate?

Chris Roth

Mar 25, 2015

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, National League, National League West, Opinions & Predictions, San Francisco Giants

With the departure of Pablo Sandoval and Hunter Pence set to miss the first two weeks of the season, the Giants will need someone to help perennial MVP-candidate Buster Posey drive in runs. But who will that...

Is Gio Gonzalez Over Tanner Roark the Right Call for Nationals?

Joshua Sadlock

Mar 24, 2015

Features, Major League Baseball, National League, National League East, Opinions & Predictions, Washington Nationals

One of my favorite Twitter hasthtags is #firstworldproblems. Who among us can't appreciate the difficulties of iPhone ownership or the lack of farm fresh eggs? This is a seriously challenging world in which we ...

Nationals shopping Fister and Zimmermann, could target Scherzer

Baseball Essential

Nov 20, 2014

Headlines, National League, National League East, Rumors, Washington Nationals

According to USA Today's Bob Nightengale, the Washington Nationals are informing teams that both starting pitcher's Jordan Zimmermann and Doug Fister are "available if the deal makes sense." It will surley requ...

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