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WBC: Breaking Down Team USA’s Starting Rotation

One area that is notably weak for many teams entering this year’s World Baseball Classic is the starting rotation. In general, pitchers get injured more often than position players and, as a result,…Read More

Stephen Strasburg Who? How the Nationals Will Be Fine Without Their Ace – Part One

What if I were to tell you the Washington Nationals could – and should – be World Series favorites even after the team shuts down their ace, Stephen Strasburg?  Is that something you’d…Read More

The Washington Nationals and Draft Dominance

The Washington Nationals found themselves in an unfamiliar place for this year’s amateur draft; that is to say, they had to wait for 15 other teams to draft ahead of them. The organization has not…Read More

NL East News: Washington Nationals activate Chien-Ming Wang

The Washington Nationals have activated starting pitcher Chien-Ming Wang from the 15-day DL, and the 32-year-old right-hander has finally recovered from a hamstring injury that he suffered before the season.…Read More

Nationals Rumors: John Lannan and Chien-Ming Wang

Chien-Ming Wang is nearly healthy and has drawn trade interest from several teams, according to Nick Carfado of the Boston Globe.  However, the Washington Nationals would prefer to trade left-hander John…Read More

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John Lannan Rumors: Lannan Requests Trade From Nationals

You knew it was coming.  A day after the Washington Nationals announced they were optioning starting…Read More

John Lannan Rumors: Lannan Optioned; Nationals “Asked for too Much”

Yesterday evening, Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post reported that the Washington Nationals planned…Read More

John Lannan Rumors: Tigers Still Showing Interest in Lannan

Despite Chien-Ming Wang’s hamstring injury, the John Lannan trade rumors refuse to die.  Jon Heyman…Read More

John Lannan Rumors: Red Sox, Tigers “Most Serious” on Lannan

Many around the game of baseball assumed that Chien-Ming Wang’s awkward injury would shut the door…Read More

MLB Trade Rumors: Nationals Shopping John Lannan

Before Edwin Jackson’s one-year deal with the Nationals became official, John Paul Morosi and Ken Rosenthal…Read More

Braves NL Wild-Card Lead Reduced to One

With three games remaining, both league’s wild-card races have come down to the wire.  After yesterday’s…Read More

Deal or no Deal: Potential Trade Thoughts from the NL East

With the MLB trade deadline quickly approaching I asked each of our site leads to give me their thoughts…Read More

Roster Moves (6/21): Edwin Encarnacion DFA’d

Keeping it brief today, but at least this addition of Roster Moves is being published on its intended…Read More