District Daily: Matt Williams has high praise for Max Scherzer
By Pablo Roa
Good morning DoD readers, start off your day with some great Washington Nationals articles from around the web in today’s District Daily:
Matt Williams on the Scherzer signing: ‘His competitiveness is off the chart’
(Chelsea Janes, Washington Post)
When the Nationals signed Max Scherzer, they gave Matt Williams a choice: Suddenly, the second-year manager was in charge of the deepest rotation in all of baseball, entrusted with its shape and its management. His job may seem as simple as tossing a ball to one of five would-be aces and sitting back, but which five to use? What to do with a sixth arm — most likely Tanner Roark’s — that finds itself on the only team in baseball where it wouldn’t be in the starting rotation?
Williams certainly will have help with those decisions, and he said he’s happy to have those choices. When you have a Cy Young Award winner, the National League strikeout leader, and still haven’t talked about the guy who threw a no-hitter last year — how could you not be? Read full article here.
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Zack Wheeler must lead Mets turnaround against Washington Nationals
(Michael Lecolant, Rising Apple)
There’s a saying long popularized by wrestling great Ric Flare – in order to be the man, you gotta beat the man.
That holds true for Zack Wheeler and the New York Mets. For both, hope of contending in 2015 partly hinges on improved play against Washington.
The Mets finished 79-83 last season. Despite a 1-6 record against the Giants, they still managed a 64-59 combined record against the N.L. Central and West. Within the N.L. East, they posted a combined 34-23 record against the Marlins, Braves, and Phillies, but only went 4-15 against the Nationals, who outscored them by a 92-52 margin (or, by 2.1 runs per game). Read full article here.