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The Dugout: Winning Games Is Easy

On Tuesday night's game between the Nationals and Rockies, Alan Embree earned the win without even throwing a pitch. For one night, at least, he got to live the life of a fantasy baseball team owner.The real story here, of course, is that the win statistic suddenly seems a little trivial. Baseball experts across the board...

The Dugout: Regarding the Nationals' Misspelled Jerseys

I commit my fair share of typos. It's an unfortunate consequence of writing things on the Internet. But if I instead stitched my posts, letter by profane letter, onto a quilt or throw pillow or something, you'd better believe that there would be no mistakes.That's why I'm unable to understand how in the world the...

The Dugout: Nationals Lampoon II

Some important news and notes from the warped minds at The Dugout: 1. Our annual Spring Training event (hilariously named "Spring Dugz" by Nick), where we cover a different team every day for 30 days, begins on Monday. So if you like ... I don't know, the Astros, be sure you don't miss out. 2. From here on out I won't be...

Daily Jolt: Beware the Roster Crunch

The Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning.The Nationals made it official Thursday, inking slugger Adam Dunn to a two-year, $20 million deal and introducing him in Washington. Dunn fills a glaring need for the Nats -- left-handed power -- but he also creates a roster crunch that general manager Jim...

The Dugout: No Room For Delmon

All Twins, all the time! We just started covering the Twins again recently, and here comes the news that Ron Gardenhire has his outfield for next year and it does not include Delmon Young, the young star famous for throwing a bat at somebody and for helping assault the same woman like 200 times over the last few years of...