Ok – first of all, no jokes about Senators baseball and these three stooges in the title.
I saw a story on this in today’s Washington Post — http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/26/ST2008022602806.html?sid=ST2008022602806
Ok – first of all, no jokes about Senators baseball and these three stooges in the title.
I saw a story on this in today’s Washington Post — http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/26/ST2008022602806.html?sid=ST2008022602806
Just a quick note – Bill, my Philadelphia friend, challenged me on my CF ratings. He felt Victorino should be ranked ahead of Kotsay. I agree. So, that gives the Phillies 24 total points, the Braves 23 (see the earlier posts to figure out my simple ranking and scoring system). Now, we examine each team’s starting rotation. It’s an interesting mix. The Mets trumped everyone by getting Johan Santana from the Twins. The Phillies want to move Myers back to the rotation and they have a pretty fair young lefty ace too in Cole Hamels. The Braves have depth and experience now that Tom Glavine is in the mix. Florida has some catching up to do with Willis gone, but Mitre and Olson are fine young hurlers.
So, we looked at the infield and found the Nats lagging behind the big three. How do they fare in the outfield against their NL East opponents? Two excellent centerfielders, Aaron Rowland, formerly in Philly and Andruw Jones, in Atlanta left the division and the Nats picked up two youngsters, Latings Milledge and Elijah Dukes, the troubled young man who has not lived up to his Biblical namesake.
In my quest to blog on all things baseball, I wanted to take a look at how the Nationals rate against the other teams in the highly competitive NL East at the catcher and infield positions. Though some rate the AL East the toughest division in baseball, I disagree. I think the NL East is number one.
Remember the days when WMAL AM 630 was a relevant player in Washington sports broadcasting? I grew up listening to the one-of-a-kind sports radio call in show “Sports Call” hosted by Ken Beatrice. A friend of mine told me today that Beatrice lives a comfortable retirement in a suburban bedroom community in Gainesville, Virginia.
Thanks for visiting my site. Here, you’ll find intelligent, insightful writing on sports, especially baseball in Washington, D.C. — both its history and its current incarnation. I hope you will enjoy what you read here, that you’ll offer a comment or two, and that you’ll visit often. Once I learn the in and outs of this site, I plan to post some pictures of the 1969 Senators and some sound bites from interviews I conducted with former players, coaches, broadcasters and fans from that amazing team that won 86 games and vaulted rookie skipper Ted Williams to the American League Manager of the Year.