@AlGaldi@Nats_Chat I like the Mead for Early trade. You trade positional strength.
I don't love this trade for the Nats. 4:1 is hard because you're sending the top line guy. And quantity over quality is the path to mediocrity.
Bullpen arms are the cheapest & least reliable things to get. Meh
@MarkZuckerman I don’t get the House/Vivas platoon. House hits lefties better but Vivas doesn’t hit at all…
And if House is gonna be a full time 3B give the kid some reps. We know what we’ve got with Vivas and it’s a marginal player
@washingtonian They got paid $38M up front for a 5 year deal. Terra paid an above market rate as a sketchy crypto company, but the Nationals got cash and got it early.
Getting out of the deal likely means refunding some money to Terra (or its creditors) and getting less from another sponsor.
@GrantPaulsen Offensively they’ve gotten more out of this lineup than the prior coaching and development staff did by a mile but this bullpen has been a disaster.
I just don’t think they have the horses in the pen. With rare exception they can’t strike anyone out