Hudson. Hudson. Hudson. From recently resigned Adam Dunn to GM Rizzo, they’re all saying they want Hudson.
And Supposedly Hudson wants to play for the Nats too, but so far there’s no deal. Rumors says it’s because Hudson wants 9 million, but Washington can only give him 3.
This wouldn’t sound like an obscene amount of money for New York or Los Angeles, and I find it difficult to understand that Washington doesn’t have this money, from an outside of baseball view. New York is the most expensive city in the country as far as cost of living goes, and as a [...]

“There’s no way we’ll lose 100 games,” said Nats’ Ryan Zimmerman during an interview with the Washington Post.
Talk about aiming low. “We won’t lose 100 games,” but I guess you could call this optimism. Zimmerman goes on to discuss how the young team learned to lose and understand why, and now they’re ready for the opposite. To win.
Also in the interview he talks about the excitement of playing in the nation’s capital and their strong fan support. Not to mention the fan’s love for Nationals Park.

Definitely an article worth checking out.
In another Nationals news, all week long there’s been talk [...]

The actual season has been over for awhile now and it seems like it’s taking forever to get just to the Spring Training games. I’m having trouble comprehending those who complain the season is too long.
Still there are signs that the 2010 season is on its way. A simple one being the release of TV’s schedule of games.
As always some more rumors are circling the team as far as buying some more players, but as of right now nothing more seems to really be in the works.
Now its just a matter of finalizing everything and then things can finally get [...]

According to mlb.com’s Nats writer, “Jason Bergmann, Brian Bruney, Sean Burnett, Jesus Flores, Wil Nieves and Josh Willingham” have all filed for arbitration this past Friday.
Also making headlines is both fans and players waiting to see what happens with free agent 2B Orlando Hudson.  Some on the Nats want to see the team sign Hudson who most recently played for the Dodgers and have previously played for the Arizona and Toronto.  He was a strong force on a very successful LA team last year and if signed hopefully he’ll bring that to Washington.

Recently, the Nats have put a lot of effort into signing some strong pitchers and a catcher, but now they need to worry about what happens to the ball if it doesn’t make it from the pitches hand to the catchers glove and goes screeching into the outfield.
It’s no secret the team’s outfield was pretty close to infamous last year and now the team may be looking to improve with former San Fransisco Giant Randy Winn.

Winn had a pretty decent season last year playing in 149 games, and even recorded his 200th stolen base. Despite being 35-years-old he also has shown to [...]

Two weeks ago I was visiting family in New York for the holidays and of course sports talk filled the air and as the topic slid to baseball I began to ease drop. Being in New York the room was about 80% full of Yankee fans and the rest being Mets fans, but the interesting part is the amount of time spent talking about the Nationals and it wasn’t bashing or mocking last year’s worst place team but all their recent signings. It was all good publicity.
The Nationals are building a better team with wins or not through simple [...]

After not surprisingly passing his physical, Matt Capps is now on the Nats’ 40 man roster, bringing the total count to 41. There’s still no word on who will be dropped yet but I don’t expect it to be too shocking.
Besides this news, the world of fast paced Nats breaking news has really slowed down over the past week as the team prepares for Spring Training.
Stand by for an upcoming player-by-player breakdown.

2009 especially, wasn’t a good year for the Nationals. Neither was 2008, or pretty much the first three years before that. But that’s okay because now it’s 2010. I don’t want to be a naïve fan here and say the cliché “this is their year!”, because in reality it’s not (although they are welcome to prove me wrong, thus destroying my credibility) or at least it’s not in the typical sense. It will be their year in a more significant way, a turning point for Washington.
Just in the past month alone Mike Rizzo has taken huge steps to [...]