It's safe to say the 2025 season for the Washington Nationals did not go as planned. While few people likely expected the team to make the playoffs, it was reasonable to expect them to progress in that direction and at least reach the 75-win plateau. Instead, they performed five games worse than they had the prior two seasons, winning only 66 of their 162 contests.
With that said, important lessons can be learned in a disappointing season. There weren't a lot of good discoveries, but even bad realizations can inform the organization of how to proceed in the offseason.