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Drew Storen’s Sleight of Hand
Everyone loves a good magic trick. Quarter from behind your ears? Classic. Bunny from the top hat? Bravo! Getting a prom date, looking like me at the age of 17? OK, more miracle and dark wizardry than...
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(Draft) Order in the Bullpen
Volatility is rampant throughout baseball, but is at its most visible in the bullpen and the player draft. Year to year, each can make or break a team and their evaluators, especially when you consider...
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Ross Detwiler: One Trick Pony
In a feckless and lazy attempt at self promotion, I will be taking my cues from the writers of the great USA Network show Psych for this post, and will do a cross promotion with my most recent post for...
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Federal (Baseball) Offense – Shelby Miller’s Pitching Mechanics
Have you read the most recent post from the always thoughtful and informative SB Nation Washington Nationals blog Federal Baseball? The thrust of it revolves around the upcoming matchup between the...
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‘That’s Not A Strike’: A Lesson in Contrasts
2 different games, 2 different players and umpires, 2 different reactions to a called strike, 2 different results to said responses from said umpires. So says me. OK, enough alliterative foreshadowing...
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Missing the Mark – Ryan Zimmerman’s Defensive Woes
10 errors. A 2-7 record in the games those errors occurred. 11 runs scored as a result of said errors. No matter how hard you try to paint a rosy picture, full of hope and with an angle that speaks to...
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The In Vivo Autopsy of Dan Haren
Let’s have some fun with numbers, shall we?* Here are three NL starting pitchers and a collection of their stats so far in 2013; they are joined by a common thread – they were all considered by fans...
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How Do I Blogger Day? A HDIB? Field Trip (Part I)
We all like to get some recognition for our efforts, as lackadaisical or erratic as they might be at times. Whether it’s winning the Perfect Attendance Award in elementary school* or Player of the...
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How Do I Blogger Day? A HDIB? Field Trip (Part II)
This is Part II of my experiences at Nats Blooger Booger Blogger Day on June 22nd; for Part I and to meet the other bloggers who were picked for the occasion, click here. So I assume you have played...
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The Warning Track’s Power: An Exposition
By now we have all seen the valiant attempt at snagging Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley‘s home run in last night’s game made by Los Angeles Dodgers curer of cancer messiah outfielder...
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Politics and Pros(e)pectus – Baseball Prospectus’ Day in DC
In the latest pit stop of their baseball sojourn across the country, the fine, upstanding gentlemen of Baseball Prospectus and Jason Parks came into our nation’s capital to host Baseball Prospectus Day...
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Splitting Hairs – Taylor Jordan
While I readily admit it can be a blessing and a curse, sometimes I incessantly nitpick at things and scrutinize them, occasionally doing so in a poorly timed fashion. It made me successful* in...
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Dishing It Out – Pitcher Effects on Catcher Offense
There are few relationships in baseball more steeped in the concepts of symbiosis and reciprocity than the one between a pitcher and catcher. Most of the limelight and publicity of the relationship is...
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Start-ing Over: Some Thoughts On Drew Storen
It’s never easy to have that closed-door meeting, whether you’re giving the bad news or the one receiving it. I won’t go into painful detail regarding the news of Washington Nationals reliever Drew...
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I Want a New Drug Hitting Coach: Channeling Your Inner Huey Lewis
Inspiration can, at times, come from surprising places. Want to run on the field, but need the onus of (electronic) peer pressure to propel you? Look no further than Twitter. Yes, when you just need...
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Fanning the Flames
Just when you think a team is on the cusp of putting it all together and playing to their potential and even saying as much, this happens: The dumpster fire I speak of is last night’s convincing 11-1...
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Closing By Committee Poll
There has been much ado about the status of the Washington Nationals closer role as of late, with the resurgence of Drew Storen, post-AAA assignment and mechanical tweak, and the concomitant tanking of...
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Closing By Committee Poll: The Results
In my previous post, we discussed the Washington Nationals and their closer situation and did a quick poll/psychology test on who people felt should be closer, based on the statistics of four...
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Getting Napoli’d: The Nationals Run Environment, By Inning
The Washington Nationals offense over the course of the 2013 season has been uninspiring. Uninspiring enough to inspire the firing of longtime hitting coach Rick Eckstein, and to find the Nats...
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Bunting With the Devil
There has been much ado over Bryce Harper‘s bunt in last night’s game against the New York Mets — a bunt that came with runners on first and second with no outs, in the eighth inning, with the...
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