Washington Nationals sign Adam Dunn

[TZ]

The Washington Nationals and Adam Dunn have agreed to a two-year contract, according to ESPN.com's Amy K. Nelson.





The deal is worth $20 million, ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney is reporting. It could be announced as early as Thursday, according to multiple reports.

Dunn, 29, hit .236 with 40 home runs and 100 RBIs with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Cincinnati Reds last season.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3900143

Woo-hoo. My team actually signed a good player! Maybe they will only lose 90 games this year..;)

[flvegan]

1. Poor guy.

At least he's getting paid.

[TZ]

2. How did I know...

that you would be the first to comment..:crazy:

[Bertha Venation]

3. GO NATS!

[BeachBaby]

4. Wow.

So the Phillies may actually play the outfield for Nats games now! :hide:

[flvegan]

5. Just once every 3 or 4 innings.

[BeachBaby]

10. Good point.

Highly doubtful we'll be seeing much of the Flyin' Hawaiian's maneuvers at these games.

No matter - Nats games are the Phils' days of rest.

I REALLY need to stop now.

[TZ]

11. You know....

I seem to remember a certain Pennsylvania baseball team, while in a chase for the division title, being swept by a lowly Washington team at the end of last year..just sayin...:P

[BeachBaby]

12. I'm tellin ya.....

Nats games are the Phils days of rest!

:rofl:

[flvegan]

14. Shame the BoSox don't face them.

There's too little interleague play for the Sox to get to have a scrimmage...uh, I mean matchup with them.

[CreekDog]

6. .

[TZ]

7. you and flvegan and madinmaryland AND CREEKDOG

I'm gonna have to start a special tool list just for you four..:grr:
edited to add extra tool..:grr:

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Dude hits .236 and drives in 100 runs

That's gotta be a WTF record.

[TZ]

9. He probably either strikes out

Or gets an home run/RBI..Sort of like Ryan Howard of the Phillies.
I loved Dunn when he was a Cincinnati Red so I'm thrilled about this signing

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Thought I remembered him with 130-somethin' K's last year

I was wrong; it was 164.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/dunnad01.shtml

Only 23 doubles, too, so he's obviously hitting with guys on.

[KamaAina]

15. That'd be Ryan Howard

Dwight Howard plays for the Orlando Magic in the NBA.

[TZ]

16. What?

O8)


(I can't believe BB didn't catch that!);)

[GOPisEvil]

19. He is the ghost of Dave Kingman.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Mmmm... not quite yet

He's still gotta play for 22 more ball clubs. :D

[GOPisEvil]

22. *snicker*

:thumbsup:

[madinmaryland]

25. BWAAAHAHA!!

[Initech]

17. And the Angels did something interesting - signed Bobby Abreu.

Finally the offseason gets interesting! :popcorn:

[TZ]

18. hmm

He didn't seem to do much with the Yankees...

[Initech]

20. True.

Although he cant do much worse than Jon Garland. Ugh.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Meanwhile, a few miles to the northwest...

the Dodgers signed Psycho Weaver to a minor-league contract.



:wtf:

[Initech]

28. Ouch. They got the bum's rush on that one.

Should make for an interesting Dodgers-Angels rivalry this year. :popcorn:

[madinmaryland]

24. You realize his stats will change slightly this year...

Adam Dunn finishes the year at .226 with 20 home runs and 53 RBIs.

The Reagan Nationals avoid 100 losses by one game!!

On edit: BB (beachbaby, or is that barry bonds).... :evilgrin:

[TZ]

26. But they will probably still finish better

Than the Pirates...:P

[madinmaryland]

27. We'll beat the Reagan Nationals 64-63 in victories!!

:rofl: