WASHINGTON NATIONALS

Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports

Since taking over in 2009 as an interim GM, Mike Rizzo has turned the Washington Nationals from the biggest joke in baseball to a perennial playoff and World Series contender. Their 86-76 record in 2013 — a more than respectable [...]

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Brad Barr - USA Today Sports

The Washington Nationals and the Milwaukee Brewers are on the hunt for new spring training facilities. They want shiny parks in locations that are attractive to fans that would travel to warmer climates to enjoy watching spring baseball. It seems [...]

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Brad Mills - USA Today Sports

It is over three months before the 2014 MLB season will begin, but the Las Vegas Sports books have set the odds for who they like in each league to contend for the World Series. VegasInsider.com, which is a site [...]

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Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports

The Washington Nationals, as we have seen in the past, usually go into the winter like many other teams with a checklist of needs they feel they need to address. They don’t always address them as we saw last offseason [...]

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As reported yesterday by Mark Zuckerman of CSN Washington, the Baltimore Orioles have signed Washington Nationals first-base prospect Chris Marrero. For the Nationals, that’s one player that they shouldn’t be sad to see go. When the Nationals selected Marrero in [...]

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David Manning-USA TODAY Sports

Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams gets it. It is so obvious, in fact, that Williams almost sounds like he has been managing for years. It’s pretty safe to say he was probably managing in his head when he was coaching [...]

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H. Darr Beiser-USA TODAY Sports

The Seattle Mariners, Los Angeles Angels and Cincinnati Reds will perpetually be criticized for doling out ten year contracts worth a total of $705 million to Albert Pujols (31 at time of contract), Robinson Cano (31) and Joey Votto (30), [...]

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Evan Habeeb-USA TODAY Sports

The Washington Nationals‘ new manager Matt Williams along with his boss, President of Baseball Operations GM Mike Rizzo, have a plan. They are building a team that has a strong bench so that the team’s everyday stars will get days [...]

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