What’s the best roster Nationals have ever had?
I am not sure if this has been asked here before but couple of things got me wondering about this. No Nats team ever topped 2012 win total which I found surprising. I genuinely thought that we have had better squads than 2012. Second thing was a fellow Nats fan saying that they consider 2012 team the best Nats team. I started looking at some stats. This exercise is limited to rosters from 2012-2019 because those teams are the only teams with winning record.
Explanation of table attached: PP stands for position player. ML rank is out of all 30 teams. All stats are pulled from Fan Graphs and Baseball Reference.
I always thought 2019 team was better balanced than any team we had except bullpen. Bullpen was patchwork at best during the regular season. However, lineup seemed much more balanced. All hitting/PP stats agree with that. Rotation was top of its game but I think bullpen drags down the overall stats for the group. Which roster did you think was the best?
As an aside, my Nats team of last decade: C-Ramos, 1B-Zimmerman, 2B-Murphy, 3B-Rendon, SS-Turner, OF-Harper, Robles, Soto, DH-Kendrick, SP-Scherzer, Strasburg, Zimmermann, Gonzalez, Corbin, RP-Burnett, Clippard, Storen, Soriano, Doolittle, Stammen, can’t decide on another name.
I am not sure if this has been asked here before but couple of things got me wondering about this. No Nats team ever topped 2012 win total which I found surprising. I genuinely thought that we have had better squads than 2012. Second thing was a fellow Nats fan saying that they consider 2012 team the best Nats team. I started looking at some stats. This exercise is limited to rosters from 2012-2019 because those teams are the only teams with winning record.
Explanation of table attached: PP stands for position player. ML rank is out of all 30 teams. All stats are pulled from Fan Graphs and Baseball Reference.
I always thought 2019 team was better balanced than any team we had except bullpen. Bullpen was patchwork at best during the regular season. However, lineup seemed much more balanced. All hitting/PP stats agree with that. Rotation was top of its game but I think bullpen drags down the overall stats for the group. Which roster did you think was the best?
As an aside, my Nats team of last decade: C-Ramos, 1B-Zimmerman, 2B-Murphy, 3B-Rendon, SS-Turner, OF-Harper, Robles, Soto, DH-Kendrick, SP-Scherzer, Strasburg, Zimmermann, Gonzalez, Corbin, RP-Burnett, Clippard, Storen, Soriano, Doolittle, Stammen, can’t decide on another name.