Heroes (Advertisers)
Purchase the best NY Yankees Game Tickets from Ticket Brokers Vivid Seats which include NY Giants Tickets, New York Mets Tickets, Knicks NBA Tickets, Rangers Hockey Tickets, Islanders Tickets, Jersey Boys Tickets, , Madison Square Garden Event Tickets New Jersey NBA Nets Tickets and Devils NHL Games .

Find New York Yankees tickets and other hot MLB tickets at CTC! We carry Cardinals baseball tickets, Red Sox tickets in Boston, Detroit Tigers tickets, Dodgers tickets and World Series tickets as well as New York Giants tickets and hot show tickets, including Coldplay concert tickets, Conan O'Brien tickets, NY theater tickets and Broadway show tickets.


This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

View blog authority
eXTReMe Tracker
2008 Season Previews: Washington Nationals
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Welcome to the 10th of 30 "2008 Team Previews", where I'm - you guessed it! - offering up a little preview of the 2008 season for each of the teams. Nothing super fancy, (I'm not writing books here munecas), just a few notes on what major moves the teams made over the winter and a thought or two on their upcoming season. I'm going in reverse order of 2007 standings, so next up is....

Washington Nationals

2007 Record: .451 (73-89), 4th place in NL East

2006 Record: .438 (71-91), last place in NL East

Who’s Out: RFK (Stadium), Ryan Church (OF), Brian Schneider (C), Glenn Gibson (P)

Who’s In: Nationals Park (Stadium), Johnny Estrada (C), Tyler Clippard (P), Willie Harris (OF), Rob Mackowiak (OF), Paul Lo Duca (C), Lastings Milledge (OF), Elijah Dukes (OF), Aaron Boone (INF), Wily Mo Pena (OF)

Notes: If not for the Mets and the Philles, this team would actually have a shot. They made some terrific moves during the offseason and have an exciting young core with Milledge, Dukes, and Pena (plus, Pena has one of the coolest names EVER), and they have 2 perfectly capable first basemen in Nick Johnson and Dmitri Young, which will give them the flexibility to test them both out, choose which one is the best fit, and trade the other. Additionally, they'll be playing in their brand spankin' new stadium, which will be more conducive to hitting homers than a football stadium. Their main weakness is pitching, as the guys are all very young and thus inexperienced.

I'm not the only one that thinks they're going to have a good season - Bruce from 567 Miles From Home agrees. As he says, "For the first time since the Nationals migrated south from Montreal the organization is finally starting to show some promise. Ryan Zimmerman (the Nat’s version of Derek Jeter) has already started to hit home runs in spring training games, and with the new Nationals Stadium's dimensions the relatively young but talented team should be able to increase its offensive production much more than they were able to in the cavernous RFK. One of the biggest questions for this years squad is who will play first base. Returning Nick Johnson, who missed all of 2007 with a broken leg, and Dmitri Young, who just signed a ten million dollar 2 year contract are fighting that out right now, but I think the smart bet is that the oft injured Johnson gets traded before the season starts. As far as pitching goes, the staff is young and untested so that could lead to some trouble, especially as the season progresses. Still, look for a plus .500 season with an outside chance of finishing 2nd in the NL east behind the Mets."*

*if you have a non-Yanks blog and want to chime in when it's your team's turn, let me know!


Next up: Texas Rangers
Previous Profile: Houston Astros

Labels:

posted by Yankees Chick @ Tuesday, March 04, 2008  
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home
 
Yankees Chick Tweets!
Fun Fact O' The Week

In 2009 Curtis Granderson published a book: All You Can Be: Dream It, Draw It, Become It! Granderson "shares the lessons that he learned growing up--the importance of family and choosing the right friends, the power of listening and staying positive, and most important, the value of being yourself."
Interleague Play: Love it or Leave it?
Hate it
Love it
Indifferent
Interwho?
  
Free polls from Pollhost.com
Previous Poll Results
Which Former Yank Free Agent Would You Most Like to See in Pinstripes in 2010?
Johnny Damon 53%
Chien-Ming Wang 26%
Xavier Nady 8%
Jose Molina 6%
Jason Giambi 6%
Jeff Weaver 2%
Catch up! Recent Posts
What'd You Miss? Archives
About Me

Name: Yankees Chick
Home: San Diego, CA, United States
About Me: Just your average 26 year old Yankees lovin' gal from the SD.
See my complete profile
Blog Faves
Subscribe
 Add to RSS

Add to Google
Subscribe in Bloglines
Search!
Google