Recounting Jim Riggleman's heinously awful managing on Saturday in the Nationals' 2-1 loss to the Giants.

To create a true measure of the number of outs a hitter creates per plate appearances, I have created a new stat built on OBP simply called "out rate." This tells us what percentage of plate appearances a hitter creates an out, including on the bases. This is a simple, and quite obvious measure, and it's quite odd to me that no one has (as far as I know) collected this information before.

Nationals fans are revolting against the weak to non-existent coverage of the team in local media by sending laid-off Washington Times beat writer Mark Zuckerman to Florida to cover the team on our behalf. Fascinating story of post-newspaper internet-based independent media, if I do say so myself.

Today I update my annual look at which managers are the best (and worst) in their use of the intentional walk. Teaser: Ken Macha is the worst.

Today I post my current WAR projection for the Nationals after recent roster moves.

They can catch the 2003 Tigers today, and they could catch the '62 Mets by mid-week.

Why I wasn't really that into the Ryan Zimmerman hit streak, and why it was dumb for Bruce Bochy to intentionally walk him in the 7th inning last night (helping end said hit streak and also lose the game for the Giants).

Today I attempt to break down in gory detail and with surgical precision why the Scats are so very, very bad.