The Nats Thread (old thread link inside, too many load issues)

[StillUnknown]

to me i rather not give another starter more money than Gio, Stras or Zimm who are due for raises soon. I wouldn't even mind getting a guy like Victirino from the Dodgers or Angel Pagan from the giants.

Gio signed a very team friendly deal when he got here, he's locked up for the foreseeable future.

J.Zimm is the next to get paid.

[SkinsHokieFan]

Gio signed a very team friendly deal when he got here, he's locked up for the foreseeable future.

J.Zimm is the next to get paid.

Gio is crazy cheap. I think J-Zimm you could buy out a few years of FA for under 20M.

Stras still has a while before arbitration. I would do 5/100 for Greinke

[Renegade7]

Definetly support the Josh Hamilton idea. No salary cap in baseball, so that's not something to be feared. Same way if Granderson hits the open market or Ichiro. The team has pitching, now what we need are hitters that people fear day in and day out. And we do need another, better starting pitcher. Greinke sounds interesting. The pitching staff is great, but we can make it more dominant to help negate powerhouse offenses like the cardinals and yankees.

[SkinsHokieFan]

Definetly support the Josh Hamilton idea. No salary cap in baseball, so that's not something to be feared. Same way if Granderson hits the open market or Ichiro. The team has pitching, now what we need are hitters that people fear day in and day out. And we do need another, better starting pitcher. Greinke sounds interesting. The pitching staff is great, but we can make it more dominant to help negate powerhouse offenses like the cardinals and yankees.

My big problem with Hamilton is he essentially quit on his team after the all star break

[MLSKINS]

Lesson I learned this year, it is bad to have the best record in the MLB. When was the last time the number one team won a WS

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

Well some idiots did. It sounded like they were all in one section so you may have not been near there. I was in 112. Fans are so stupid. But the majority of the stadium didn't yell O. DC fans are finally maturing and learning.

142, almost dead centerfield. Nobody screamed it in the outfield. How many Cards fans did you see last night?

[DCranon21]

Bryce is already a pretty good defensive CF. He needs experience more than anything, putting him in LF wastes the asset that is his arm. He's fine where he's at.

We don't really have any starting pitching thats major league ready at Triple A, we dealt those guys to get Gio. We have arms in the minor, but at lower levels.

No you're right. Keep Bryce at CF. I just thought about that.

If anything, I'd look at some middle relief pitching. Just a thought, how much you think it would take to get Hamilton? Doesn't he play CF for Texas?

[H@iL2Gibb$]

If Lombo is not an everyday player, can we find someone else to take Kspinosa's place? He's a sure out

[Renegade7]

My big problem with Hamilton is he essentially quit on his team after the all star break

Nolan Ryan disagrees with you.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/texas...ton-didnt-quit

As far as position, I'd move Hamilton to Morse's spot in the outfield. If we got somebody like Granderson, you let him play where he feels comfortable and tell Harper to try and hit 40 HRs two years in a row and he can play where he wants, too.

I also don't like the idea of letting LaRoche go. I'm not seeing too many options to improve that position if we do that.

[SkinsHokieFan]

Nolan Ryan disagrees with you.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/texas...ton-didnt-quit

As far as position, I'd move Hamilton to Morse's spot in the outfield. If we got somebody like Granderson, you let him play where he feels comfortable and tell Harper to try and hit 40 HRs two years in a row and he can play where he wants, too.

I also don't like the idea of letting LaRoche go. I'm not seeing too many options to improve that position if we do that.

Of course Nolan Ryan is going to say that

But anybody who paid attention to baseball, and watched that wildcard game could see that Hamilton quit.

[chipwhich]

142, almost dead centerfield. Nobody screamed it in the outfield. How many Cards fans did you see last night?

I counted 3

[BRAVEONAWARPATH]

If Lombo is not an everyday player, can we find someone else to take Kspinosa's place? He's a sure out

Not willing to give up on Danny just yet.

[StillUnknown]

If Lombo is not an everyday player, can we find someone else to take Kspinosa's place? He's a sure out

Espi gets one more year, only because many of us were saying similar things about Desmond before this season. Desi came alive in his 3rd season, maybe Espi can put it together as well.

No you're right. Keep Bryce at CF. I just thought about that.

If anything, I'd look at some middle relief pitching. Just a thought, how much you think it would take to get Hamilton? Doesn't he play CF for Texas?

He's going to get a monster deal, for us he would be a luxury, not a necessity.

[stevemcqueen1]

Thought I would feel better today but tried to read a Jason Stark article about last night's game and it was painful. It's painful to think about free agents and the winter meetings. I'm going to break up my routine and take a little while away from sports. Watching them and thinking about them has come to basically consume all of my free time. I want to be able to take them as just a game again, remember how they made me feel when playing them as a kid. I didn't even get this bent out of shape about them when the teams I was on lost.

[Zazzaro703]

Listen to you guys? Same thing may happen next year? People talking about getting rid of Davey Johnson? Ya know, my dad's a yankees fan, and he was on the phone with me during the bottom of the 9th. He's been watching baseball way longer then I have, but I still had to hang up on him once the Cards took the lead.

I called him back because I said I would, but that fact still remains that there's more to being the best team in baseball then having the best record (the cards just proved it, again). My only fear from this season is now so many of these new nationals fans are going to be spoiled by the idea of having the best record being normal or the new standard.

Did you get to my posts after this one when I explained why I feel the this way?