TLDR: Brown = anti-Bagwell https://wapo.st/3CoUGPl Excerpts: The Astros’ GM has a scout’s eye, an ‘elite’ makeup — and a Nats history The Astros the Nats face this week? They’re the responsibility of a man who had more of an impact on the Nats than he has yet on his own club. “I thought my window was closing for this type of opportunity,” said Dana Brown, the first-year Houston general manager. [...] “It’s crazy,” Brown said. “We were doing it without data. We were just doing it with the scouting eye. I look at it now, I’m like: ‘Wow. We were so fortunate.’ It’s so hard. Learning what I know now, I wouldn’t totally trust just the naked eye.” Brown’s foundation is that: the scout who judges with that eye and casts what he sees against a bottomless bank of knowledge. [...] In Dana Brown, they have the perfect person to do both.
Is this a compliment or something to be concerned about given that the Nats are not something anyone else would be interested in emulating?
That's the one that will always gnaw at me... stupid 7th inning, the one year Strasburg put it all together and stayed healthy, running Harris out there time after time, and not getting to Scherzer earlier in the game.
It bothers me way less since they won last year. Also, I like Cole not having a championship after his ugly departure and going to the Yankees....
If Brown doesn’t step in and make sure Altuve is in the lineup tomorrow then his ass needs to be canned
