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I'm told that covering baseball's Winter Meetings - which convene tomorrow in Dallas - is a lot like my maternal grandfather's time-tested method for telling whether a pot of boiling spaghetti has reached the peak of tenderness - al dente, as the culinary whizzes among us like to say. Pop would literally pluck a few noodles from the rolling boil and throw them against the
The Nationals want to bolster the rotation with a veteran starting pitcher, and depending upon whom you choose to believe, general manager Mike Rizzo has been linked to the top three starters on the free agent market: left-handers Mark Buehrle and C.J. Wilson, and right-hander Roy Oswalt. Will Rizzo return from the Winter Meetings in Dallas next week with one of the trio to sit
It seems like only yesterday we were drawing the curtain on the 2011 season at Nationals Park. Now, we're a couple of days away from baseball's power brokers convening in Dallas at the Winter Meetings, where they'll engage in trade chat, sign free agents and generally talk shop until the wee hours. I'll be there representing MASNsports.com, keeping you up to date on everything the
As a reporter, I've always felt a little odd about the concept of a big, protracted goodbye on a blog - we're supposed to relay stories about the people we cover to our readers, not be the center of the story ourselves. Then again, I've spent the last two years writing under a masthead with a goofy pun on my last name, so here goes:
After promoting Triple-A Syracuse manager Randy Knorr to the major league staff as Davey Johnson's bench coach for 2012, the Nationals filled his old job the way they've been staffing their minor league teams for the last few seasons: moving managers up from within their ranks. They promoted Double-A Harrisburg manager Tony Beasley to Syracuse, also adding hitting coach Troy Gingrich to that staff. Single-A
Welcome to a special Thursday edition of "What If?" Wednesdays, where we look at how things might have worked out differently for the Nationals if some event had worked out differently. And our installment this week, if I do say so myself, was worth waiting for, since it's probably one you have daydreamed about yourself: What if Stephen Strasburg hadn't gotten hurt? We all know
