Happy Opening Day, Everyone!
Let’s all get ready for the 2022 Washington Nationals’ season as they begin rebuilding into an annual contender.
That’s the first, and probably the hardest reality to confront for fans who as recently as last April thought the Nationals could contend for the postseason. From 2012 through last July, the Nationals were a pitching-dependent, veteran-led team with multiple power threats.
But that trade-deadline purge last July 30th transformed the Nats into a group of talented prospects, coalescing around one dominant hitter, Juan Soto, with the one remaining dominant pitcher, Stephen Strasburg, on the injured list.