#Mike Rizzo

ST. LOUIS - Tis the season for excessive social media scrolling, baseball fans. The clock is winding down on the MLB trade deadline. It's that time of the year when the St. Louis Cardinals usually find themselves busy making moves, though the chances of pulling off a blockbuster vary each season. Occasionally, the Cardinals will pull the trigger…

WASHINGTON - The Nationals face an uncomfortable reality they've been all-too-familiar with over the years: Stephen Strasburg is hurt again. He hit the IL on Tuesday for the 15th time in his career and fifth time over the last three seasons. It came after he missed the first two months of the season recovering from last summer's thoracic outlet…

The New Year, Volume 2023 is upon us, and that means a dual occasion to reflect upon our misfires of the year prior and look forward to our derelictions of the year to come. As it turns out, this grim ritual of inventory can also be applied to the clubs that play This, Our Baseball. The Royal We shall now do such a thing. Resolution: At least…

Major League Baseball's 2022 trade deadline has come and gone. The deadline was set for 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday and teams are no longer be able to make deals to bolster their rosters ahead of the stretch run. The biggest name was moved early Tuesday: Juan Soto headed to the Padres in an eight-player blockbuster that also featured Josh Bell landing in…

Davey Martinez talks often about his routine of going home - once he finally leaves the ballpark every day - and re-watching games each night during the season. Following his fifth campaign on the bench in Washington, D.C., which the Nationals finished at 55-107, the bench boss spent some time looking back to assess what did and didn't work for a…

ESPN senior MLB insider Jeff Passan gives his odds of Juan Soto getting traded and what would prevent it from happening. The MLB trade deadline is this upcoming Tuesday, Aug. 2, and the main focus will be whether the Washington Nationals will actually move on from star outfielder Juan Soto. That all came to be after a 15-year, $440 million contract…

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It's another action-packed Saturday on the MLB slate, and we're here to help you make sense of the prop pandemonium with our best bets for today, including Austin Riley to keep mashing at Coors. Get our favorite MLB prop picks for June 4! It's June and the baseball season is in full swing with 16 games on the MLB betting board this Saturday. That…

The Offseason and Free Agency is the best time of the year for 29 teams (winning the World Series being the exception) because it means your team has as good of a shot as any to improve. Even if your team and owner aren't known for making big splashes or running with high payrolls, you at least get the momentary glimmer of hope, thinking to…

Bo Jackson: MLB has brighter future than the NFLLegendary two-sport athlete Bo Jackson recently told Sports Seriously why he thinks baseball has a brighter future than football. LAS VEGAS - There were no free-agent signings, and only a couple of small trades, but when the Major League Baseball General Manager meetings ended in Las Vegas on…

If Joey Meneses were a flower, he'd blossom on Christmas. In baseball, it's one thing to be a late bloomer. It's another to reach age 30 with zero MLB home runs, as Meneses did, then try to create a meaningful career. Since 1900, only one player has reached age 30 without a big league homer, then ended his career with at least 100: the great Lefty…

Injuries, struggling player development and in-season trades. When you ask Washington Nationals fans to describe the 2022 season those are often words you hear. There have been multiple signings by Mike Rizzo that are considered "failures". Nelson Cruz, Cèsar Hernandez and Steve Cishek have gotten to the point where Nationals fans dread to see them…

As the Major League Baseball playoffs approach, what's going on with teams at the other end of the standings? Here's a look at the seven worst teams in the majors: Athletics: Until it gets a new ballpark, which at best will be in 2025, Oakland wouldn't seem to have much hope. Owner John Fisher dropped the luxury-tax payroll to $48.2 million by…

The Washington Nationals are currently in a complete re-build. The first of many signs of that came after trading away Trea Turner and Max Scherzer last season at the trade deadline. Now, GM Mike Rizzo, has traded away Juan Soto and Josh Bell signaling that the team is starting over. Through these trades, the Nats have piled up many top prospects…