Washington Nationals

When you are called the Washington Nationals, you represent not only Washington D.C., but every national in this country, and with that comes a lot of pressure.

With the nation goes the Nationals and vice versa, so do not blame the Nationals for their awful play, but rather the nationals of this country for the state we and the team are in. There, I said it.

Adam Dunn and Ryan Zimmerman are trying to get the DOW up, but you people keep spending idiotically which sends Elijah Dukes and Jesus Flores to the DL and even worse, Joel Hanrahan to the mound.

Stephen Strasburg is too good for college baseball.

The 1967 Kansas City Athletics finished the season with a record of 62-99, dead last in the American League. For most of their 13 years in Missouri, the Athletics had been little more than an additional farm team for the New York Yankees, trading their rising young stars to New York for aging veterans.

That's how Roger Maris became a Yankee; he was traded for Hank Baur, Don Larsen, and Marv Throneberry.

Well, not only can the Baltimore-Washington area lay claim to cultural diversity, great seafood, and the heart of American government, but it is also home to three of the worst owners in professional sports.

Peter Angelos, Ted Lerner and Daniel Snyder (not surprisingly) - are the worst owners in all of pro sports as compiled by Sports Illustrated.

Syracuse.com is reporting that outfielder Lastings Milledge fractured his right hand while attempting to bunt on a pitch from Ty Taubenheim in the first inning of the Chiefs game against the Indianapolis Indians at Alliance Bank Stadium on Monday morning. 

There is no word as to how long Milledge will be out.

In part one of this series, we took a look at the overall team numbers of the Washington Nationals' surprisingly effective offense. In part two here, we'll examine each of the Nats' regular players to evaluate their performance so far, and try to establish if they can keep up their pace.

Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA system is a tremendously accurate projection system, so we'll compare their projections to the players' pace to aid us in our evaluations.