Lo Duca to Start for Nats; Flores’s Role Is Uncertain – The PostNew catcher Paul Lo Duca arrives in D.C. as the starter behind the plate. it has not yet been determined whether catcher of the future, Jesus Flores will stay in the majors as Lo Duca’s backup or catch every day in the minors.
Lo [...]
Nationals, Lo Duca Agree to 1-Year Deal – The PostC Paul Lo Duca has reportedly signed with the Nationals for around $5 million. He’ll cost slightly more than Brian Schneider did. Lo Duca isn’t as strong behind the plate as Schneider, but is a better hitter.
Thomas Boswell is very excited, even though Lo Duca “can’t [...]
New-Look Nationals Raise Hope, Questions – The PostOn paper, the Nationals had a very good week at the winter meetings, acquiring younger, cheaper talent with higher ceilings. Veterans Ryan Zimmerman and Austin Kearns say they are pleased. Other than the Elijah Dukes trade, I am too.
The club also heads to spring training with John Patterson, [...]
For Experience, Nats Add A. Boone – The PostNepotism both figurative (former Red) and literally (son of front office employee) strikes again! Aaron Boone, who will always be remembered fondly here for his pennant winning walk-off home run while with the Yankees is now a National. He says he’ll be pinch hitting for the most [...]
Nationals Pursue Lo Duca – The PostThere is a lot going on at the winter meetings, but no new trades took place yesterday. Tyler Clippard is a officially a National though. They are also looking into Katsuhiko Maekawa, a left-hander from Japan with off the field baggage. There are also rumors of an extension (Nationals [...]
THOMAS BOSWELL – Nats Get Their Man in Dukes. So Now What? – The PostBoswell goes through all the problems that Elijah Dukes has had, then evaluates him as a baseball player and sees…Austin Kearns? That isn’t what the Nats braintrust is seeing, they are thinking a power-hitter who’ll be in the lineup for the [...]
Nationals Acquire Troubled Dukes – The PostIt appears the relative calm of the last year and a half of Trader Jim Bowden’s tenure as Nationals general manager is over. Yesterday, on the first day of the winter meetings in Nashville, Bowden acquired OF Elijah Dukes from Tampa Bay. on the baseball side, Dukes is an [...]
Elijah Dukes — greeeeeeeaaaaaaat (Nationals Journal). Yet another talented by troubled find; hopefully it will work out, but I’m sick of Jim Bowden bringing in players based on their chance for redemption. This dumpster diving is getting old.
More tomorrow
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Schneider, Church Dealt for Milledge – The Post
Nationals acquire Milledge from Mets – The Wash. Times
The Nationals acquired promising outfielder Lastings Milledge from the Mets for C Brian Schneider and OF Ryan Church, two holdovers from the Montreal days. Milledge comes to Washington a year removed from being seen by the Mets as an untouchable [...]
Nationals acquire Milledge from Mets – nationals.comTrading a fourth outfielder and an aging, overpriced catcher for a potential star outfielder strikes me as a good deal. More tomorrow when the broadsheets publish stories on the trade,
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