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Derek Norris had himself a pretty good day at the plate yesterday in the AFL. --Sue Dinem from nationalsprospects.com
This is a very debatable topic. How to realign baseball and have an even number of teams in each league without expansion. --Dave Nichols from natsnewsnetwork.com
Adam Dunn will be a type A free agent after all. --Adam Kilgore at washingtonpost.com
The Nats are hoping Espinosa can continue where he left off in September, but he is off to a slow start in the winter leagues. --David Lint flotn.com
Justin Maxwell is hoping to be ready for Spring Training after undergoing TJS. --Byron Kerr from masnsports.com
Stan Kasten talks about the possibility of taking a job with the league and fixing the issues in the DR. --Adam Kilgore from washingtonpost.com
Signing Dunn or finding a replacement is number 1 on the Nats' priority list according to Jim Riggleman. --Ben Goessling at masnsports.com
Riggleman also believes the Nationals will be ready to make their move by the middle of 2012, but we have heard this one before. In my opinion the Nationals will be good like the Padres were. When it happens it will be a suprise. --Dan Steinberg in The D.C. Sports Bog
Non-baseball D.C. News
ESPN personality and minor league expert prefers Five Guys to In and Out. --Keith Law at meadowparty.com
Around the NL East
Marlins discussed trading Mike Stanton for Ozzie Guillen. --Ben Nicholson-Smith from mlbtraderumors.com
General Baseball
Matt Cain is a walking cliche as he hits his spots and controls the game by making the batters put his pitches in play. --Joe Posnanski from si.com