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2024: The Nationals rebuilding effort gains steam

The Washington Nationals made only two significant acquisitions of veteran talent during the 2023-2024 offseason: third baseman Nick Senzel in December and first baseman Joey Gallo in January. Neither player worked out, as Senzel was designated for assignment in early July, while Gallo went on the injured list in June after performing poorly, and he is not expected to stay with the team much longer. Another new acquisition, Jesse Winker, will play left field. Nevertheless, the younger players acquired via the trades for Max Scherzer, Trea Turner, Juan Soto and other first-stringers in mid-2021 and 2022 are showing great promise. In early April, pitcher Stephen Strasburg finally announced his retirement, after he and the Nationals reached a settlement on the three years remaining on his 7-year $245 million contract. The Nats did not do well during the first few weeks of play, but started improving in May, and climbed into third place before slumping in the latter part of June, falling into fourth place again. During July they traded away relief pitcher Hunter Harvey, left fielder Jesse Winker, and right fielder Lane Thomas.

Starting positions, 2024

CF: Jacob Young .252 Victor Robles (DFA)

LF: Jesse Winker * $.199

RF: Lane Thomas $.268

SS: C.J. Abrams .245

2B: Luis Garcia .266

3B: Nick Senzel * .217 Ildemaro Vargas, Trey Lipscomb

PITCHING ROTATION Jake Irvin (4.61) Mitchell Parker (---) Mackenzie Gore (4.42) Trevor Williams (5.55) Patrick Corbin (5.20) Kyle Finnegan (3.76) : closer

1B: Joey Gallo * .177 Joey Meneses .275, Juan Yepez

C: Keibert Ruiz .251 Riley Adams

DH: Joey Meneses .275

2023 batting average for position players, ERA for pitchers. * (asterisk) = new player (since end of 2023) Underlines indicate that the photo is of the second-string player = No photo yet available. $ = traded away on Aug. 2

Manager: Dave Martinez

Nationals' head-to-head matchups,
2024 FIRST HALF

Opponent	Wins	Losses
ARZ	1	2
ATL	6	2
BAL	1	1
BOS	1	2
CHC	0	0
CHW	1	2
CIN	1	2
CLE	1	2
COL	2	1
DET	2	1
HOU	2	1
KC	0	0
LAA	0	0
LAD	2	4
MIA	7	0
MIL	0	0
MIN	1	2
NYM	0	3
NYY	0	0
OAK	1	2
PHI	1	5
PIT	1	2
SD	0	3
SEA	2	1
SF	2	1
STL	0	0
TB	0	0
TEX	1	2
TOR	2	1
Totals	38	43

New contracts of note

• Nick Senzel (3B) -- 1 year, $2 million (Dec.)
• Dylan Floro (P) -- 1 year, $2.25 million (Dec.)
• Tanner Rainey (P) -- 1 year, $1.5 million (Nov.) AE
• Victor Robles (CF) -- 1 year, $2.5 million (Nov.) AE
• Luis Garcia (2B) -- 1 year, $1.95 million (Jan.)
• Lane Thomas (OF) -- 1 year, $5.45 million (Jan.) AE
• Kyle Finnegan (P) -- 1 year, $5.1 million (Jan.) AE
• Hunter Harvey (P) -- 1 year, $2.3 million (Jan.) AE
• Joey Gallo (1B) -- 1 year, $5 million (Jan.)

"+" = optional extension (mutual or otherwise). "D" = part of salary is deferred. "AE" = arbitration eligible. Dollar figures are rounded, and are estimates in some cases.

2024 memorable moments

• Apr. 13 -- Mackenzie Gore strikes out 11; WSH 3, OAK 1 @
• Apr. 20 -- Joey Meneses hits game-winning RBI in bottom of 10th inning; WSH 5, HOU 4
• Apr. 27 -- Jesse Winker hits a grand slam, capping Nats' first double-digit score of the year; WSH 11, MIA 4
• Apr. 28 -- Nick Senzel homers twice as Nats bounce back from 7-0 2nd-inning deficit; WSH 12, MIA 9 @
• May 29 -- Mackenzie Gore strikes out 10 one day after Jake Irvin did the same (and lost); WSH 7, ATL 2 @
• June 15 -- D.J. Herz strikes out 13 over six innings; WSH 4, MIA 0
• July 4 -- Jake Irvin allows just one hit in 8 innings; Jesse Winker pinch-hit HR in 8th inning; WSH 1, NYM 0
• July 6 -- Three Nats homer (incl. James Wood's first) in blowout slugfest; WSH 14, STL 6
• July 25 -- Padres' pitcher Dylan Cease throws the third no-hitter in Nationals Park history; SD 3, WSH 0
• July 29 -- D-backs score 5 runs in bottom of the 9th to win, Kyle Finnegan blown save & loss; ARZ 9, WSH 8
• July 29 -- D-backs score 11 runs in first three innings off Patrick Corbin, Nats suffer biggest defeat margin ever; ARZ 17, WSH 0

"@" = away game

Nationals, 2024: month-by-month summary

Month	Wins	Losses	NL East place (at end)	Number of home games	Total attendance	Average attendance
* April 2024	14	15	4th	12	300,508	25,042
May 2024	12	15	3rd	11	270,603	24,600
June 2024	13	14	4th	13	342,309	26,331
July 2024	10	16	4th	14	355,424	25,387
Aug. 2024
* Sept. 2024
Apr.-July 2024	49	60	4th	50	1,268,844	25,377
SOURCE: My unofficial daily tabulations from MLB Gameday stats, Washington Post, and other newspapers. * -- The April data include 3 games in March.

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Annual and monthly summaries

SOURCE: My unofficial daily tabulations from MLB Gameday stats, MASN-TV, Washington Post, and other newspapers. ? -- Data not yet verified, subject to revision.
Red borders denote the Nationals' all-time best (or worst) record for this category.
(!) -- Data corrected, via baseball-reference.com.
* -- Asterisks indicate the data include March (for April) or October (for September).
# -- Games scheduled for Sept. 25, 2008 and Sept. 7, 2011 were cancelled because of rain, and were not made up later, so the Nationals only played 161 games in those years.
Yellow background denotes postseason appearance (4 NL East championships and one wild card appearance thus far).

SOURCES: My unofficial daily tabulations from MLB Gameday stats, MASN-TV, Washington Post, and www.baseball-reference.com
Winning percentages pertain to the whole month; Place in the NL East and Games behind (or ahead) pertain to the end of the month.
* -- Asterisks indicate that the April data include games in March or that the September data include (regular season) games in October.
# -- Games scheduled for Sept. 25, 2008 and Sept. 7, 2011 were cancelled because of rain, and were not made up later, so the Nationals only played 161 games in those years.
Yellow background denotes postseason appearance (4 NL East championships and one wild card appearance thus far).
Orange background denotes the best monthly win-loss record or most number of games ahead of second-place team.
Violet background denotes the worst monthly win-loss record or most number of games behind the first-place team.
@ = The first 102 games of the 2021 season were canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Nationals' postseason appearances

"@" = win or loss on the road. Underlined score = extra innings

Nationals' winning percentages, day-to-day, for each year

DYNAMIC CHART: Mouse rollover.

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Annual roster summaries

* = Played for less than half the season in this position. Positions for 2011 are based on number of innings for the first three months, subject to change. Starting players whose names are stricken through were on the disabled list for several weeks. Names in italics denote new players -- those who were not on the roster at the beginning of the season one year before. Yellow background denotes NL Most Valuable Player, NL Cy Young Award (for pitchers), or NL Rookie of the Year Award. Names that are underlined indicate players who were selected for the All Star Game. In addition, three Nationals relief pitchers played in All Star Games: Chad Cordero (2005), Matt Capps (2010), and Tyler Clippard (2011 and 2014). Capps and Clippard were credited with the wins in the 2010 and 2011 games.
** = In 2012, pitcher Gio Gonzalez was also chosen, Ian Desmond was chosen but decided not to play because of a strained back muscle, and Bryce Harper was chosen as a last-minute replacement after coming in third in the "Final Vote." In both 2013 and 2014, Jordan Zimmermann was chosen, but decided not to play either time because of, respectively, a strained neck and a strained bicep. Likewise, Stephen Strasburg was selected in 2016, but decided not to play because of health issues, and in 2017, but did not get a chance to pitch. In 2018, Sean Doolittle was also selected, but was on the disabled list. In 2019, Max Scherzer and Anthony Rendon were selected, but both opted out in order to let various ailments heal.
$ = Traded away in July. DFA = "designated for assignment"# = sent down to minors.

Blue background denotes best record in the National League for this category. "CY" = Cy Young Award; "MVP" = Most Valuable Player; "(T)" : TIED with another player.
Red borders denote the Nationals' all-time best record for this category. (2020 is excluded because of the shortened season: 60 games rather than 162.)
( Q# ) : Only players with a qualifying number of plate appearances (3.1 per team game) or innings pitched (1.0 per team game) are included, except for 2022 and 2023. In 2022, NO Nationals pitchers qualified. Of the two pitchers who were within 10 innings of qualifying, Josiah Gray had a better ERA than Patrick Corbin. In 2023, Corbin was the only qualifying pitcher, but Gray had a substantially better ERA: 3.91 over 159 innings vs. 5.20 over 180 innings for Corbin.
$ : Played part of the season for another team, being traded away; these data pertain just to games played with the Nationals.
* In 2021, Trea Turner led the National League in batting average (.328), but he played the last two months with the Dodgers.

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Head-to-head historical data

The table similar to the one above was originally presented in my April 5, 2013 blog post. It shows the Nationals' win-loss records against each team in all regular season games since 2005.
In postseason games, the Nationals are 6-3 vs. STL (2012 & 2019), 1-3 vs. SF (2014), 5-3 vs. LAD (2016 & 2019), 2-3 vs. CHC (2017), 1-0 vs. MIL (2019), and 4-3 vs. HOU (2019). Overall postseason record: 19-15.
* MIA was coded as "FLA" before 2012.

Listings of remarkable late comebacks, disheartening late losses, grand slams, walk-off home runs, no-hitters, etc. of past years that formerly appeared at the bottom of this page are now presented on the Washington Nationals BIG moments page.

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