Trading Justin Upton AND Jason Heyward?

Back on topic, clearly the Nats have reached their ceiling with their current core, which is a 1st round exit, so will they trade us their good players? I mean, what has this core done for them???
 
Carp said:
The Royals were the 2nd best team in all of baseball after the all star. Lets not act like they lucked into the postseason here with some mediocre team.
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Because the all-star break is such an arbitrary point. The Royals went 14-2 in a stretch in August which will make anybody look good. They went 19-18 the rest of the way after that. And were 9-8 in the 2nd half before that great run. So let's not act like they were some juggernaut the 2nd half. They had an amazing 16 game run surrounded by .500 ball. I'm not taking anything away from them. But an 89 win team is not all that amazing. No matter what their 2nd half record was or what they do in the playoffs. MLB as a whole this year had very average teams besides the Nats and Angels. Both got knocked out in the first round. Again, playoffs rarely show who the best team is. Only who plays the best and gets the right bounces in a short span.
 
I don't see how after the all-star break is arbitrary but comparing smaller stretches isn't.

I'm sure you can find stretches of good and bad play from any team. The Royals won the 2nd most games in the 2nd half of the season. And 2.5 months is quite a large sample size. Royals had exactly the same W/L record as the Angels the last 2 months on the season. They have been playing great baseball for well over 3 months now. What they did the 1st 2.5 months of the season is hardly relevant to how they have played the last 2.5 months. They didn't have certain players at the start of the yr and others were severely underperforming (like Hosmer and Butler).
 
I am excited to see what this team does with a competent hitting coach. Even BJ. I just wish he had more than 1 year with Justin and Heywood.
 
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