Home Run Derby

  OK, the season is now 22 games old for the Nationals (13.6% of their games are already played), and as of today, they are the worst team in baseball (as the Greek predicted in our 30 in 30 feature) with a record of 6-16.  For a team that won it’s first three games this season, that record is “remarkable” for all the wrong reasons.

How scary is it, by the way, that Christian Guzman leads the team in Home Runs, Runs Scored, Batting Average, OPS, SLG, Total Bases, Hits and Triples.  Let me repeat, Guzman leads the team in Home Runs with two (Shared with Nick Johnson, Austin Kearns and Ryan Zimmerman). Uggh.

A quick perusal of Nats team stats.

• Last in the NL for Batting Average, Slugging, OPS. 
• 14th for Runs, OBP, and Quality Starts. 
• 13th for ERA, WHIP, Saves. 

Where does that leave this team?  Straight to Suckville.   Just another name for the Worst Team in Baseball !  

This team needs to break out the Bull Durham special.

Start breathing through some eyelids, wear the garter (just remember, the flower goes in front, big guy), and when all else fails get Crash to deliver a rain out.

Also remember that HRD predicted that the Nats would go 0-18 vs the New York Mets this season.

In the four games played against the Mets, the Nationals have scored a total of 6 runs to the Mets’ 21, en route to an 0-4 record. 

That’s 4 down and 14 to go for the boldest, most improbable prediction of all (0-18).

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