The Nationals were having a rough season even before they unloaded Juan Soto and Josh Bell at the trading deadline.
Somewhat surprisingly, their first post-deadline game against the Mets (started by Jacob deGrom in his return to action) resulted in a Washington win — and ex-Cub Cory Abbott threw five scoreless innings for the Nats in that game — but the Nats have not won since then.
For more on the Nats, here’s Patrick Reddington, who runs our SB Nationn Nationals site Federal Baseball.
There are plenty of frustrated fans in the nation’s capital these days, a year-plus into the organizational reboot the Nationals kicked off with a sell-off of expiring deals (and a year-plus of Trea Turner) at the trade deadline in 2021.