Predicting Home Run Totals for Washington Nationals Starters

The Washington Nationals have made several moves this offseason, mainly to their lineup and bench. Corey Dickerson, Dominic Smith, Stone Garrett and Jeimer Candelario have been added. The team struggled to score runs after the trades of Juan Soto and Josh Bell.

The Nationals have made several moves this offseason, mainly to their lineup and bench. Lane Thomas led the club with 17 home runs last season. Joey Meneses had 13 home Runs in 56 games last year. The Nationals are going to predict their home run totals for the 2023 season based on their current lineup.

CJ Abrams has yet to hit a home run as a member of the Washington Nationals. The team has been advocating for him to do that.

Luis Garcia has spent the last three seasons split between AAA and the MLB. He's looking to establish himself firmly after spending the past three years split. Garcia's chasing rate and walk rate might drop his theoretically Home Run total a bit, but he should still get to double digits.

Joey Meneses could lead the team with 16 home runs in 2023. He will probably regress to the mean from his previous season's production.

Jeimer Candelario will hit 16 home runs for the Washington Nationals this season. He will be streaky like Lane Thomas last season and will not hit 30 home run.

Lane Thomas had a good season last year. He hit 12 home runs. This year he will play in a platoon situation.

Dominic Smith had zero home runs in 152 plate appearances last season. He hit 11 home run in 145 games in 2021.

Corey Dickerson had 3 seasons of 24+ home runs from 2014-2017, but has not hit more than 13 in a season since. He has had only 6 home run each of the past two seasons. Dickererson finds himself in platoon role.

Predicting Home Run Totals for Washington Nationals Starters. Keibert Ruiz will get to double digits this year. Catchers make their living behind the plate, commanding the pitching staff.

Victor Robles had 6 home runs last season. This year he should have 2 more. The Nationals have better odds at winning the World Series in 2023 than Victor Roble leading the team in Home Runs.