On Friday afternoon, Ryan Madson became the latest Washington Nationals player to be dealt in August. He’ll head out west to join the Los Angeles Dodgers in their bid to make the playoffs for a sixth straight season. Ken Rosenthal was the first to report that the Dodgers were acquiring Madson.
It’s the latest in a number of waiver trades that the Nats have made in the past couple of weeks. First, they traded Daniel Murphy to the Chicago Cubs and quickly followed it by flipping Matt Adams back to his first club, the St.