The biggest edge the Nats have as they try to rebuild may be the vast fortune that they did not spend to keep all the heroes of the 2019 World Series in town.
, may turn out to be the best billion dollars of deals never made. In real-time sequencing, the Nats would never have signed all of them. But if, for example, they’d just gone full-market on Soto and Turner, they’d have dug a payroll Grand Canyon.
I was as cheerfully dumbfounded to figure all this out as I am completely unwilling to project it into the future.The Nats still project to lose 98 games with the second-fewest homers and the fifth-worst ERA in MLB. That’s reality. But it’s also real that considering their ages, contracts and probable futures, the Nats are lucky to have Gray and Abrams as long-term core players.for Jon Lester, who won four more games, then retired.
More indicative of a plausible Thomas future may be his 120 OPS+, 105 extra-base hits and 5.5 WAR in 1,088 plate appearances over three Nats years. Compare that to the OPS+ in their time as Nats of Turner , Ryan Zimmerman , Jayson Werth or Adam LaRoche . Under team control through 2025, Thomas should be a keeper.is more likely a valuable one-year Rizzo Rental, like reliever Matt Capps, who was an all-star in 2010 and then, just days later, fetched prospect Wilson Ramos at the trade deadline.
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