Tobi and Lynnel discuss the Nationals slow start to the season. The guys think the team needs to make significant upgrades to the pitching staff if they hope to compete.
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00:00I think that's the discussion and the talking point right there.
00:03What does this offense have to show between now and July
00:08for Rizzo to make a move to bring in a bullpen arm?
00:12Because I think that's where you're kind of looking at right now.
00:15And I'll give him a little bit more grace when it comes to the offense
00:19because obviously we've seen K-Bear hit it really well to start.
00:22James Wood, I mean, looks like the best power hitter in baseball right now.
00:25I'm probably hyperbolizing that.
00:26A little bit there.
00:27You pick up what I'm putting down.
00:28Yeah, sure.
00:29He's looked amazing here to start.
00:31Dylan Cruz trying to get out of his little slump that he's been in.
00:34Looked much better in Pittsburgh.
00:35So what does the offense have to show between now and July for Rizzo
00:42to feel like that's a move worth making?
00:44Because we know he's not scared to go make trade deadline moves.
00:47Yeah, I feel like you just got to show more consistency.
00:49This team can score some runs.
00:52I think the difficult part about this and really the reason why I think this season
00:56was so intriguing but also why I think you've seen it get off to a slower start
01:00than maybe you would have liked is this season was going to go where the young
01:03guys took it.
01:04Yeah, like James Wood has been fine, but outside of him like Dylan Cruz has
01:08struggled.
01:09It was going to be on Dylan Cruz to get things going.
01:11Jacob Young struggled out of the gate.
01:12He's playing a little bit better now, but even so Jacob Young isn't some dude
01:15that's going to hit 30 homers and make the most impact with his bat.
01:18So it's dependent on these young guys, the offseason acquisitions.
01:22Nate Lowe has been really good.
01:23Yeah, I like what he's been able to do, but Josh Bell is provided next to nothing.
01:27Paul DeYoung is now hurt, but even when he was on the field defensively, he was
01:31good offensively wasn't giving you enough at the plate.
01:33So it's just a difficult spot for this team to be in where seemingly since 2019
01:38this team has been in a free fall and they remind me frankly a little bit of where
01:44the Wizards are, where everyone looks at the Wizards and go, gosh, they got to win
01:49now.
01:50And it's like, no, no, no, they don't have to win now.
01:52The issue is they were terrible, terrible, terrible.
01:55And then they brought in the new front office and they finally started doing
01:57things correctly.
01:58It's only been a couple of years of doing it correctly, but it's longer time frame
02:04of being bad.
02:04Whereas now for the Nationals, 2019 happened.
02:07They eventually start moving on from some of their guys and they went down, but
02:11really they've only started developing and getting more guys.
02:14In the organization to really, really help over the last two to three years.
02:17And so it takes a little bit longer in baseball to rebuild some of these
02:20things, especially if you're not going to spend money in free agency.
02:23So it's, it's frankly disappointing.
02:25Like, I don't think there's any other way to say it.