Still early in the season, but the NL team most often picked for the WS is in disarray

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ATLANTA — Doug Fister fields his position so well that the Nationals ask their minor league pitchers to emulate his defensive approach. When he threw away two pickoff throws in the fifth and sixth innings of Monday night’s 8-4 loss to the Atlanta Braves, one of Washington’s last pillars of defensive reliability toppled.

By the end of the game — a few hours after the team confirmed ace Max Scherzer is too injured to start Tuesday and Anthony Rendon was scratched from a minor league rehab game — the rest of the Nationals’ foundation seemed to have fallen apart, too.

Nothing has truly crumbled yet, of course. Though the Nationals have lost six straight games, are alone in last place in the National League East and have the second-worst record in the National League, it is still April — far too early to reduce all hope to rubble. But right now, nothing is going right. ......................(more)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/nationals-fall-to-braves-for-sixth-straight-loss-sit-alone-in-last-place-in-nl-east/2015/04/27/cf5f070c-ed21-11e4-a55f-38924fca94f9_story.html

[n2doc]

1. Buying a team doesn't usually work

They have some great foundational parts, but seem to be in too big a hurry to win it all now. Same goes with Dodgers.

That said, it is April. Let's see where they are in July.

[Kingofalldems]

2. Tell me about it.

Like Philly, they got old fast.