Nats all-time stats will blow your mind (not in a good way for the most part)
The Nats’ (updated) all-time stat leaders – Nats Insider
Going all the way back to 2005, Mark Zuckerman compiled the Washington Nationals all-time statistical leaders. He provided this warning:
WARNING: Reading these lists will elicit a wide range of emotions, from smiles to frowns to laughter to tears to sheer dumbfoundedness (and yes, I know that’s not a real word, but trust me, it will apply to a few of these names)…
To qualify, a player needed at least a full season with the team.
- Perennially injured Nick Johnson has the third most games
- Michael Morse is already 3rd on the home run list
- Ryan Zimmerman has 283 more RBI than the next closest Nat — Johnson
- Zimmerman has 366 more hits than the next closest — Cristian Guzmán
- Dmitri Young is the only player with a batting average over .300. Morse is in second place with .295.
- Reliever Tyler Clippard has the 3rd most wins with 19
- Livan Hernandez and John Lannan are the only pitchers with more than 100 starts with 129 and 128, respectively
- Nyjer Morgan is the leader in stolen bases.
- Errors committed was not included
- Neither were managerial wins/winning percentage
The Nats really have been as awful as people said. Thanks to Zuckerman for compiling this it had to have been depressing.
I’d love to see the all-time D.C. stats with both incarnations of the Senators included as well.
UPDATE: Here they are from the blog D.C. Baseball History – D.C. Baseball Yesterday and Today Hitting | Pitching. Not a lot of modern Nats on those lists yet. Chad Cordero is the all-time saves leader though. It is safe to say most of the pitching records will never be broken.
Pitchers and catchers report one month from today.
[...] One of the few early alumni of the Nats minor leagues, John Lannan just lost arbitration and will have to settle for $5 million instead of $5.7 million. Had Edwin Jackson not been signed, he’d have been the highest paid starter in the D.C. rotation. Lannan is almost certainly on the trade block though. I’ll admit to being sentimental about Lannan, he was pitching out of position in the #1 spot for so many years when the Nats were dreadful and holding his own (except against the Philadelphia Phillies). Lannan has also increased velocity over the years and finally broke the 10 win barrier in 2011. He has the second most wins on the Nats staff since 2005. [...]