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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 142: 2013 Season Preview Series: Washington Nationals

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam preview the Nationals’ season with Paul Sporer and Daniel Rathman, and Pete talks to Adam Kilgore, who covers the Nationals for the Washington Post (at 19:51).

Transcript

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0:00.0

President Day, you know, if George Washington were alive today, he'd probably say,

0:10.0

good God, I'm 281 years old, why can't I die?

0:14.5

Good morning and welcome to episode 142 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

0:20.7

Perspectives. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh, not in Long Beach, California,

0:27.2

St. Miller is off the grid for President Day. St. Miller is a big fan of presidents

0:34.1

and recognizing their achievements. So he will be back tomorrow. I am joined today to talk

0:41.3

about the Nationals. We've finally gotten to the National League. We are over halfway through

0:46.0

this thing by Paul Sporer again and Daniel Rathman. Hello, Dan and Paul. And Pete Barrett will be

0:56.1

talking to Adam Kilgore from the Washington Post after we wrap up. So the Nationals had the

1:04.2

best record last year. They had the best run differential last year. The consensus seems to be that

1:10.5

they had a successful offseason, maybe one of the better off seasons and got better this winter.

1:17.0

Do you agree with that consensus? And if so, do you think the Nationals are the best team in

1:23.2

Baseball at this point? Pacota would not agree with that statement, I guess, but a lot of

1:30.0

mainstream writers certainly would you agree with that? Do you think they have gotten better?

1:35.6

I'll go first, I guess, and talk about the hitting side. I absolutely think they had an

1:40.0

amazing offseason. When you consider going ahead, resigning La Roche, moving more out to cover

1:47.3

that, obviously, because then you would have had a log jam there between the left field area

1:52.2

and first base. And the fact that there is no DH, of course, hurts. But the trade for

1:56.9

Denard Span, I thought, was excellent. Now, they don't have a lot of fly ball guys. So even

2:02.0

those defense is awesome. It's not a major help. When you look at their guys, they've actually

2:07.6

got a lot of good, heavy ground ball guys. Geo Gonzalez was near 50 percent. Jordan Zimmerman

2:13.4

can be very high. He kind of split his season in half. Ross Dettweiler is Steven Straussberg's

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