Tyler Clippard was a decent Relief Pitcher over 16 years, though like many bullpen specialists, he played for multiple organizations.

Clippard began (and ended) his career with the Washington Nationals, and in his first run in D.C., he was twice an All-Star (2011 & 2014) and had a 32-Save campaign in 2012.  That first run with the Nationals was his peak, but he would later play for Oakland, New York (NL), Arizona, New York (AL), Chicago (AL), Houston, Toronto, Cleveland, Minnesota, and a second stint with Arizona and Washington. 

Overall, Clippard appeared in 807 Games, had a record of 56 and 48 with 74 Saves.

Stephen Strasburg had an intriguing career that set the precedent for managing pitcher's arms in the modern era. He was the First Overall Pick in 2009 and debuted for the Nationals the following year, in what was arguably the most highly anticipated pitching debut by an American player. However, he only appeared in 17 games in his first two years as he underwent Tommy John Surgery. Despite this, he was effective in his limited work and showed what he was capable of.

In 2012, the Nationals made it known that they would be monitoring Strasburg’s innings. He went on to be an All-Star that year, going 15-6 with 197 strikeouts. It could have been a lot more, but Washington shut him down on September 12, including the playoffs, where the Nats were eliminated in the Divisional Round. Strasburg had a decent 2013 (8-9, 191 SO, 3.00 ERA) and 2014, he was ninth in Cy Young voting and led the National League in strikeouts with 242.

Strasburg continued to show why he was worth the investment, and he was an All-Star again in 2016 and 2017, with the latter being the better season. He led the NL in FIP (2.72), had a career-low ERA (2.52), and was third in Cy Young voting. After another solid season, Strasburg went 18-6, fanned 251 batters, and was fifth in Cy Young balloting. Even better, Strasburg led the Nationals to their first World Series win, going 5-0 in the playoffs, including two wins in the Fall Classic, where he was named the World Series MVP. He signed what was then the largest contract for a pitcher (7 years/$245 million), but disaster was about to strike.

Strasburg succumbed to a nerve issue in his pitching hand that held him to only three batters in 2020. Diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome, Strasburg managed only 21.2 innings in 2021. It was even worse for Strasburg, who had to be shut down after one game, and he never pitched again.

As promising as his talents were, Strasburg was a hell of a talent when he was healthy, but sometimes it is not meant to be.

Ryan Zimmerman has been a constant player for the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball for the past sixteen years. He has been a valuable asset to the team, providing power and a solid batting average. While he may not be considered an elite player, he has performed better than the average Major League Baseball player. He has earned two Silver Sluggers, one Gold Glove, and made two All-Star Game appearances.

Zimmerman was a member of the Washington Nationals team that won the 2019 World Series Championship. He currently holds the record for the most games played (1,799), runs scored (964), hits (1,846), doubles (417), home runs (284), and RBIs (1,061) in the franchise's history.

Although he may not be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Nationals should honor him in some way for his contributions to the team.

Jordan Zimmerman first made it to the majors in 2009 as the fifth starter in the bullpen of the Washington Nationals. However, his debut was short-lived as he underwent Tommy John Surgery after 16 starts and was unable to return until late 2010.

In 2011, Zimmerman was healthy and used his three-pitch arsenal to record a 3.18 ERA, but his record was losing (8-11). The following season, he improved his performance (12-8, 2.94 ERA), but it was in the next two seasons that he became one of the best players in the National League.

Zimmerman was an All-Star in both 2013 and 2014, leading the National League in Wins (19) in 2013, and BB/9 in 2014 (1.3). He finished seventh and fifth, respectively, for the Cy Young award.

After a decent 2015, Zimmerman signed with the Detroit Tigers. However, his performance deteriorated, and he had a 5.63 ERA over 99 games in Detroit. He attempted a comeback with Milwaukee in 2021, but he retired after only two games.

Although Zimmerman's career was not long, and he had less than 100 wins, he is currently in the top one hundred all-time in BB/9 (1.9) and SO/BB (3.67). Zimmerman will not make it to the Hall of Fame, but we appreciate pitchers who rarely allow free passes, especially in an era where walks are celebrated.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists, and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post-2023 revision of our top 50 Washington Nationals.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Nationals had another awful season and were not close to the playoffs.  The poor year did not generate any changes in the Top 50, but as always, we acknowledge that we considered the 2023 Season.

As always, we present our top five, which (obviously) saw no changes:

1. Gary Carter

2. Tim Raines

3. Max Scherzer

4. Andre Dawson

5. Steve Rogers

You can find the entire list here.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022 revision of our top Washington Nationals.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, Washington was one of the worst teams in baseball, and the only player they had they improved his rank, was traded during the season.

As always, we present our top five, which was not affected by the last season:

1. Gary Carter

2. Tim Raines

3. Max Scherzer

4. Andre Dawson

5. Steve Rogers

You can find the entire list here.

Outfielder, Juan Soto, who was traded to San Diego during the season, moved to #14 from #17.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

Despite being a First Round Pick, Gio Gonzalez was traded three times before he made his Major League debut, which was with Oakland in 2008.  Gonzalez's first two years were nothing special, but he broke out in 2010, going 15-9 with a 3.23 ERA, and he was better in 2011, going to the All-Star Game and finishing the year at 16-12 with a 3.12 ERA.  As typical with the A's, Gonzalez was traded away, as Oakland knew they could not afford him in the future.  The Washington Nationals would become their long-term home for Gonzalez.

In Gonzalez's first year in the National League, he had the best year of his career, leading the league in Wins (21), adding a second All-Star Game, while also finishing first in FIP (2.82) and SO/9 (9.3) and fanning 203 batters.  Gonzalez was third in Cy Young voting, but this would be his highwater mark, not a building block.  Over the next five years, Gonzalez mainly was a middle-of-the-road starter, though he was sixth in Cy Young voting in 2017 when he was 15-9 and had a 2.96 ERA.  

Gonzalez was traded to Milwaukee during the 2018 Season, but he declined the following year and battled with injuries.  After a year with the White Sox and an attempted comeback with Miami in 2021, his career ended with a decent record of 131-101 and 1,860 Strikeouts.

As was expected, one of the all-time Washington Nationals greats, Ryan Zimmerman, announced today that he is retiring from Baseball.

Drafted in the First Round in 2005, Zimmerman made the big leagues that year, and remained with the Nationals for all of his sixteen seasons.

An All-Star in 2009 and 2017, Zimmerman was a solid power hitter, who had seven 20-Home Run years with a pair of Silver Sluggers (2009 & 2010).  Batting .277 lifetime for Washington, Zimmerman was a veteran presence on the 2019 team that won the World Series, the first for the organization.

Zimmerman was a member of the Washington Nationals 2019 World Series Championship Team, and is at present the all-time franchise leader in Games Played (1,799), Runs Scored (964), Hits (1,846), Doubles (417), Home Runs (284) and RBIs (1,061).

Zimmerman is Hall of Fame eligible in 2027, though is unlikely to make it past the first ballot, though he is a prime candidate to be honored by the Nationals in the future.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish Ryan Zimmerman the best in his post-playing career.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2022 revision of our top 50 Washington Nationals.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note, that this is our first revision, reflective of the last year.

The Nationals went into full rebuilding mode, trading many of their stars during the season.  There were no new entries, but were some rank elevations.

As always, we present the top five immediately, which has no changes.

1. Gary Carter

2. Tim Raines

3. Max Scherzer

4. Andre Dawson

5. Steve Rogers

You can find the entire list here.

Scherzer almost supplanted Raines at #2, and he completed the season with the Nationals, he likely would have.

Ryan Zimmerman moves up from #9 to #6.  This could be the end of the climb for Zimmerman, as it is speculated that he might soon retire.

Infielder, Trea Turner, was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the season.  Despite, not playing all of the year with Washington, he was fantastic this year, and moves up to #14 from #22.

Juan Soto, who was this year’s National League MVP runner-up, rockets up to #17 from #36.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

Juan Soto is currently one of the most exciting young baseball players in the game, where he has played all of his four years in the Majors with the Washington Senators.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present the fourth revision of our top 50 Washington Nationals of all-time.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.

3. Playoff accomplishments.

4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note that this is the latest update since the end of the 2018 season, and needless to say, the first since the Nationals won the 2019 World Series.

Remember, this is ONLY based on what a player does on that particular team and not what he accomplished elsewhere and also note that we have placed an increased importance on the first two categories, which has altered the rankings considerably.

This list is updated up until the end of the 2018-19 Season.

The complete list can be found here, but as always we announce our top five in this article.  They are:

1. Gary Carter

2. Tim Raines

3. Max Scherzer

4. Andre Dawson

5. Steve Rogers

A significant change has taken place in the top five, as Max Scherzer has rocketed up from #9 to #3.  While this may seem incredibly high for a player who has only been with the team for five seasons, it also reflects how we look at how a player performs in individual seasons equally to their overall tenure.  Scherzer has won two Cy Youngs, with the other three years also seeing him finish in the top five in voting.  If this isn’t the best half-decade in franchise history, then what is?

There were other significant ranking changes based on 2019.  

Stephen Strasburg, the 2019 World Series MVP moves from #11 to #6.  Anthony Rendon, who was third in MVP voting rocketed from #22 to #12. He left the Nationals to join the Angels in the off-season.  There is a debut in Trea Turner, who makes his first appearance at #35.

As always, we thank you for your support.

Trea Turner played the first six-and-a-half years of his career with the Washington Nationals and had it not been for their 2021 firesale, his tenure in D.C. would likely have been longer.

As always, we here at Notinhalloffame.com continue to update our existing lists.

As we slowly put together our Top 50 all-time players for every major team we constantly continue to update our existing ones. For the second time, we are updating the first franchise 50 we ever posted, the Washington Nationals.

Since the last time we revised our Washington Nationals two things have changed.

The first is that since our last revision in two and a half years ago, we have relaxed the dependence on advanced statistic and put a higher reward on individual seasons. We think this allows for a more equitable balance on traditional and advanced metrics.

The second and of course obvious change is that two full seasons have passed. This list is now up until the end of the 2017 Season.

The entire list can be found here and we certainly encourage you to take a look at it and let us know your thoughts and opinions.

Prior to that we wanted to make you aware of a few major changes on the list since the last revision.

Max Scherzer debuts at #9. While his tenure with Washington has certainly been brief, three All Stars and two Cy Youngs already make him one of the most successful hurlers in Nationals history.

2014 Silver Slugger Anthony Rendon makes his first appearance at #22.

Other debuts on current Nationals are Daniel Murphy (#31) and Tanner Roarke (#35).

Other jumps in active Washington Nationals include Bryce Harper from #9 to #8, Steven Strasburg goes from #29 to #11 and Gio Gonzalez moves from #28 to #16.

Other debuts based on our revisions are Moises Alou (#38), Dan Schatzeder (#45) and Wilson Ramos (#47).

As you may have deduced, the entire list has been shuffled.

We will be unveiling the Top 50 All-Time Dallas Stars next.

A member of the Washington Nationals for seven years, Wilson Ramos’s first six years in the Capital City would see him suffer through multiple injuries and occasional platooning, which would limit to a degree his production.  He made it on this list of the top 50 Washington Nationals based on the strength of his final season (2016) where he had career highs in Hits (148), Home Runs (22), Runs Batted In (80), and all aspects of the Slash Line (.307/.354/.496).  He was also named an All-Star, a Silver Slugger and finished 17th in MVP voting that year.

 Daniel Murphy only played two-and-a-half seasons with the Washington Nationals, which came after a long run with the New York Mets where he was poised to be a star in Gotham.

Dan Schatzeder was a Montreal Expo twice (1977-79 & (1982-86) where both times he was not considered to be an elite (or even a above average) Pitcher.  That did not stop the southpaw from putting together very solid runs predominantly as a spot starter and middle reliever.  Schatzeder would be with Montreal for eight seasons and was a lot more valuable than his traditional statistics.  He had a 37-31 Record for the Expos.

The son of former star Felipe Alou (and his manager with the Expos) Moises Alou began his successful career in Major League Baseball (save for two games in Pittsburgh) with the Montreal Expos.  Alou was an All-Star in the strike-shortened 1994 season where he batted .339 and was also named a Silver Slugger while finishing third in MVP voting.  Alou would also have a pair of 20 Home Run seasons for the Expos.

Tanner Roark's first seven seasons in the Majors were with the Washington Nationals where he was predominately been used late in the starting rotation. and has produced for the Nats a solid run.  In Roarke's second season (2014), he would go 15-10 with an eighth place finish in WHIP (1.092).  He regressed in 2015 and was demoted to the bullpen for a spell, but he came back in 2016 with his best season in Washington with 16 Wins, a sub 3.00 ERA, and was tenth in Cy Young voting.  His last two seasons were not as good, but he remained as a starter with Washington until he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds after the 2018 season.  Roarke would go 64-54 with 732 Strikeouts.

Anthony Rendon came with a lot of expectations and how could he not be?  The former Dick Howser Trophy winner from Rice University was drafted sixth overall in 2011 and he has proven to be a balanced player for the Nationals as of this writing.

Max Scherzer had only been with the Washington Nationals for four seasons and he did something that we thought either Bryce Harper or Stephen Strasburg would do first when we began this list.  He is the first player who competed in Washington and not Montreal to be in the top five in franchise history.