Bob Sacamano

He didn't even throw 200 last year. He was at 160. I feel he would be a pretty good arm to do it with. Have a reliever get through the first inning and then have Nova come in from innings 2-6/7. I would prefer it to be him over the youngsters. Of course, it probably means Santana is the 5th starter, who could be an innings eater himself if his finger is fine.

There's no way players already don't talk about playing together off the record, but yeah it's kind of dumb to make those comments in front of a camera.

Yeah it would be nice to do it with a lefty and righty for sure.

Guess we know where Marwin will be playing.

Think he meant "who were against"

I started watching that show Riverdale that he is on. Damn shame.

Not sure that they would be an easy task.

That's tough to gauge since they did get 3 useful MLB players in that deal. It wasn't just Bailey and prospects for Kyle Farmer or a PTBNL or something.

I just don't see the Nats dumping Zimmerman, personally. I read yesterday that if the Nats signed Kimbrel, they would be in the lower penalty level this year (they're about $4 mill under the tax threshold now). After this year, Zimmerman and Dozier would become free agents and that would help their issue for next season. We'll see what they ultimately do.

And then do what with Zimmerman/Alonso? Or try to deal Abreu somewhere (not that they'd get a lot for him)?

Fixed.

I wouldn't say recruit but more as a "we might suck in 2019, but you can spend it with your friends" move for Machado. In the end, it didn't work out since we didn't offer the most. Ironically, the team that got him is another team that will likely suck in 2019.

He wasn't brought in as a recruiter. How can he recruit for a team he hasn't even played for?

I read a post on Facebook saying that the Charlotte announcer was calling the game the other day and he noticed Eloy was hitting with a new stance. I really hope that wasn't Steverson pushing for a change because why fix something that isn't broken?

What?

Missed opportunity.

That'll show him!

It's amazing that McCann got an MLB deal. Didn't someone point out at the time of the signing that he isn't even good defensively?

Or $7 upper deck ticket and sitting in first row lower level. That works too. Definitely great being a fan for when you do actually want to go.

The MLBTr story on KW's comments even mentioned that our core is controllable and won't even be expensive for a while. It's all bs. And regarding your comment, they didn't even need to spread it out over the life of the deal. Just add 2 years, $25mill per year at the end of the deal and the Sox would have likely been fine.

Fact: if his name was Seth Beer, he'd be more hyped here.

Ha I've thought the same. Just go hardcore Brewers fan for a year. If anything, it'll be a great troll job on my Cubs fan friends.

He gets $330 mill and Kenny the other day is bragging about how their offer was better than the Padres offer for Machado since it could be even more than the $300 mill Machado ended up getting? Does that make any sense? Lol

Did you not watch last year or something?

You realize the people swearing them off likely will stick around due to their fandom right? They're just pissed off. Let them come around on their own. When Eloy comes up and starts hitting, that will bring everyone back together.