{"id":598,"date":"2021-07-06T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/?p=598"},"modified":"2021-07-06T00:14:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T06:14:35","slug":"nationals-mash-their-way-to-2029-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/2021\/07\/06\/nationals-mash-their-way-to-2029-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Mash Their Way to 2029 Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1200px-Washington_Nationals_logo_low_res.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1200px-Washington_Nationals_logo_low_res.svg_-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-599\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1200px-Washington_Nationals_logo_low_res.svg_-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1200px-Washington_Nationals_logo_low_res.svg_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1200px-Washington_Nationals_logo_low_res.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1200px-Washington_Nationals_logo_low_res.svg_-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1200px-Washington_Nationals_logo_low_res.svg_.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington&#8217;s owner was AWOL during the off-season and FA.&nbsp; When he emerged from his work imposed sabbatical the season was about to start.&nbsp; To prepare for a playoff run he did what most elite GMS do. 1) Canned his manager before the start of the season and brought in a journeyman whose main talent was not ticking off his star players.&nbsp; 2) signed a bunch of retreads and FA castoffs. 3) Claimed his number 3 starter off of waivers. 4) Traded away his farm system (And likely AL ROY) for two Center Fielders.&nbsp; It all paid off however with a team that hit 385 HR and had two 70 HR hitters.&nbsp; Including Jeff Badger who broke Barry Bonds&#8217; record with an amazing 78 HR.&nbsp; Washington made it through the playoffs on the strength of its mediocre pitching and ridiculous team power capturing the deciding game 6 by hitting a total of 8 home runs in a 15-8 slugfest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington&#8217;s owner was AWOL during the off-season and FA.&nbsp; When he emerged from his work imposed sabbatical the season was about to start.&nbsp; To prepare for a playoff run he did what most elite GMS do. 1) Canned his manager before the start of the season and brought in a journeyman whose main talent was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,79,81],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-championship","tag-nationals","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}