Nationals Prediction: Expert Picks, Odds, Stats & Best Bets – Sunday, May 26, 2024 The Washington Nationals (23-27) seek to complete a series sweep as they take a 2-0 lead into the finale versus the Seattle Mariners (27-26) at 1:35 PM ET on Sunday from Nationals Park. Trevor ...
Our 71-91 finish, combined with the White Sox getting the same treatment we got last year (i.e., being a big market team that is bad two years in a row getting kicked out of the top 10) and Oakland getting kicked out of the lottery as well (they’re a revenue recipient that’s ...
Round 3:Matthew Purke, LHP draft eligible sophomore from TCU:Released/elected Free Agency 11/5/15after being released and then re-signing in Nov 2014 in a pre-arranged deal to get him off the 40-man. He signed with the White Sox, and immediately did for them what he never could do f...
then the team left him unprotected in Rule-5 and he got plucked by the White Sox. I went back andlooked at my analysis of the 2013 rule-5 draftand discovered that the team was sitting at 39/40 and really didn’t have the room to protect someone like Nieto, who was considered...
I default to “manager of the team that surprised people the most and snuck into the playoffs.” Following this theory i’ll goRick Renteriaof the White Sox in the AL(who improved from going 72-89 last year to 35-25 this year) andDon Mattinglyof the Marlins in the NL (whose Marlins...
won. Bruney never contributed in a meaningful way and the team cut him loose in May. I thought at the time he was suffering from a “Bruised Ego” as the source of his crummy performance, but he didn’t pitch any better the next year for the White Sox and was soon out of the ...
The White Sox sent him to AA for 2015, he elected FA (presumably after being DFA’d) and signed as a MLFA with Miami for 2016. Nieto continues to bounce around the minors to this day, playing sparingly for AA Jacksonville in 2019. In the minor league phase, the Nats took a couple ...
So my prediction? multiple NRIs joining the team: McFarland, Jeffress, Parra and Mercer. Do any of these guys project to feature at all in 2021?Absolutely. Past my four NRI predictions, I can see more than a few of these guys getting call-ups later on if they stick. ...
as we speak of being at the super-2 cutoff; to be really safe, teams could wait until the first week of June to do call-ups and likely be clear of the cut-off. So that works out well; Fedde gets 3 weeks or so in the bullpen, then gets the call. That’d be my prediction. ...