"Teams rebuild all the time. If you aren't blessed with an owner willing to spend your team cycles through times when they spend more and times when they spend less based on the talent they have. What you don't do is rebuild from a rebuild. This is what the Nats are doing and it means one simple thing : The Nats screwed up."
"The Nats were never really known as a strong development team and their drafts were first pumped by the can't misses of Strasburg and Bryce, then by Rizzo's "all or nothing" strategy paying off with guys like Rendon and Giolito. But the strategy of all or nothing in a place like the draft usually gives you nothing and the Nats had very thin drafts and in the quest for a title that thin layer of talent from 2013-2016,"
"You don't trade ALL your best talent and the Nats did keep guys around they liked. They ended up holding on to Austin Voth, Erick Fedde, Carter Kieboom, Seth Romero - guys that amounted to very little -while dealing guys that did something. How much of that is talent and how much development? Who was asked for and who did the Nats say were off-limits? We'll never know but they basically rolled snake eyes on the high draft picks kept around."
The Washington Nationals accumulated roster problems through several consecutive weak drafts from 2015–2019, leaving few homegrown assets. The team relied on an "all-or-nothing" drafting approach that produced sporadic stars but many misses, causing thin organizational depth. Promising prospects from 2013–2016 were used as trade pieces, and the 2018 draft produced almost no major-league contributors. Management also retained many high-draft or liked players who underperformed while trading away productive pieces. Injuries and riskier contract decisions, such as the handling of an oft-injured starting pitcher, compounded the talent shortfall and accelerated a rebuild.
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