{"id":29963,"date":"2022-04-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=29963"},"modified":"2022-04-07T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:00:00","slug":"happy-nats-opening-day-night-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2022\/04\/happy-nats-opening-day-night-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Nats Opening Day\/Night 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to Opening Day 2022 or Night, as it turns out. It&#8217;s the most &#8220;normal&#8221; Opening Day since 2019. If you call the designated hitter in the National League, normal. It&#8217;ll get even less normal in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This season&#8217;s Opening Day is later than it has been because&nbsp;the team owners had a lockout for some reason. I guess the players won?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s going to be a long season for Washington Nationals fans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team is a shadow of its former self. <strong>Juan Soto<\/strong> is the last man standing in many respects with Stephen Strasburg on the shelf, again. <a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2022\/03\/ryan-zimmerman-number-retirement-means-11-will-be-retired-by-three-dc-team.html\"><strong>Ryan Zimmerman retired<\/strong><\/a>. Max Scherzer is in Flushing, scheduled to on the mound in the bottom of the first for the visiting New York Mets. Trea Turner was also traded to LA, with a year left on his contract. Anthony Rendon went to obscurity in Anaheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s left besides Soto?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrick Corbin, who was dreadful in 2021 &#8211; now the &#8220;ace&#8221; of the staff. Sean Doolittle, Gerardo Parra and Tyler Clippard are back for nostalgia. Erick Fedde is still around. Joe Ross is hurt again. Carter Kieboom, who can&#8217;t hit the area code, but <a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2021\/03\/nats-carter-kieboom-hard-seltzer.html\"><strong>has a hard seltzer deal<\/strong><\/a>, is hurt. Josh Bell should hit 25 homers or so. Nelson Cruz might be good for 30 or so. Can&#8217;t help but get those Zimmerman-Dunn-Willingham vibes from this lineup. It&#8217;s fitting because these Nats are going to remind you of&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yup, they are going to be bad. Real bad. 95 or more losses bad. Probably worse than last year&#8217;s 65-97 team that was two games over as July started. 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