The good ole' days at  CF

I was wondering today if the NATs were the worst team in recent memory at CF, so I went into fan graphs and got all the data on NATS CFs from 2005.  I concluded we were only the 5th worst team.   Nonetheless doing the research made me miss a few players we had in the past.  these numbers are exclusively as a CF.

Name G PA wOBA wRC+ Fld WAR

Ryan Church 317 1061 0.359 118 13.6 7.3

Nyjer Morgan 185 789 0.312 89 16.3 3.9

Brad Wilkerson 148 661 0.326 99 3.9 2.7

Justin Maxwell 122 260 0.316 91 7.8 1.5

Preston Wilson 68 280 0.331 103 1 1.3

Marlon Byrd 152 472 0.301 81 8.4 1.3

Nook Logan 145 449 0.299 78 4.2 1.1

Ryan Langerhans 176 326 0.321 92 -1.2 0.7

Alex Escobar 33 99 0.408 150 -8.6 0.2

Endy Chavez 7 12 0.312 90 1.3 0.2

Rick Ankiel 24 101 0.280  70 0 0.1

Lastings Milledge 145 613 0.319 90 -17.5 0.1

Luis Matos 14 15 0.224 30 0.8 0

Corey Patterson 5 15 0.151 -22 1 -0.1

Damian Jackson 67 135 0.285 69 -6.2 -0.6

Brandon Watson 39 96 0.213 24 -0.1 -0.6  

Thoughts:

1)Why did we ever get rid of Marlon Byrd?  He has has an allstar appearance since he left here.   

2) Is fangraphs correcting history?  didn't Dukes and Harris get some CF in the fairly recent past?  Maybe it is best we forget those Dukes in CF innings and Fangraphs is trying to help.

3)  Looking at At bats and WAR.  Ankiel is not helping us much in CF.  Nook Logan was better as was Langerhans (and they batted at RFK)! 

4) Alex Escobar could hit... look at that wOBA!  I dreamed about him helping the team a few years back.  Injuries suck!  Here is a toast to the future of knee replacement surgery!

5)Millage sure was dreadful!  

6) If you divide WAR by at bats (a stat I made up) then Church was the best CF the Nationals (not expos) ever played (ignoring Chavez), but second was Justin Maxwell.  Third was Morgan.  4th Wilkerson.

7) Why is J Max not a NAT getting 300-350 at bats a season?  Do not bother, I will never understand.  

8) I remember Chavez.  I liked him!

9)I Wonder if Nook Logan is still playing?

10) He maybe an undeservedly large ego who sometimes slides a bit to hard into catchers, but  Morgan can catch line drives... period!  This team would probably be winning more with him than without him!