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Baseball's All-Star break provides teams a chance to rest and reflect after playing basically every day for the last three months. And while there have been twists and turns in 2022 (from Joe Girardi's early exit in Philly to a Mets rotation mired with injuries), the National League East is playing out exactly how those in Vegas saw things in…

The Washington Nationals head out to the west coast to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first of a three-game set. It's time to continue our MLB odds series and make a Nationals-Dodgers prediction and pick. Washington will be playing in only their fourth game of the 2021 season. They lost their opening series against the Atlanta Braves. The…

The 2022 MLB Winter Meetings officially got underway on Sunday night. Former Toronto Blue Jays slugger Fred McGriff was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, with names such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens missing the cut. However, the Hall of Fame isn't what gets baseball fans excited for the Winter Meetings. It's the flurry of trades, signings,…

The Nationals' march to the 2019 World Series title seemed to come out of nowhere, thanks to their disappointing 2018, their awful start to 2019 and their Wild Card status. But from June 1 on, they tied the Astros as the winningest team in baseball, carrying that momentum over into October, when they overcame one deficit after another on their way…

The Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs will close out a four-game set on Thursday night. It's time to continue our MLB odds series and make a Nationals-Cubs prediction and pick. Chicago took the first two games of this series before Washington's 4-3 victory on Wednesday night. Chicago had won the first two games of this series by a combined…

Like so many defending World Series champions before them, the 2020 Nationals found tough sledding in the Year After. The reasons may sound familiar: the failure to adequately replace a departed free agent (Anthony Rendon), a lack of progress for key youngsters (Carter Kieboom, Victor Robles), and a series of setbacks and injuries to a…

Happy Opening Day, Federal Baseball-ers! At times this offseason, it looked as though this day may not come around until sometime deep into the summer, so we're very grateful to have a 162-game slate that's only a little fashionably late to cover this year. As has now become a tradition at FBB, we've got our annual predictions piece where we, as a…

The Washington Nationals (4-7) and New York Mets (7-9) start a four-game set on Monday at Citi Field in Queens with a 7:10 p.m. ET first pitch. We analyze the Nationals-Mets' betting odds and lines, with MLB picks and best bets. LHP Patrick Corbin vs. LHP Steven Matz Corbin has posted a 1-0 record with a 3.00 ERA and 0.92 WHIP with 16 strikeouts in…