Perspective: With another star poised to walk, why should Nats fans stick around?
, to fund a new stadium was money not so unbearably misspent — especially when the team won the World Series in 2019.But before they won that championship, the Lerners refused to re-sign Baker despite his leading the team to consecutive 90-plus-win seasons. Then they watched Harper walk away to Philadelphia. Why? Because they wouldn’t pay him without deferring much of his salary.And after the Nationals won it all, the Lerners let Rendon, the World Series hero, leave for the Los Angeles Angels.
Then last July, as their season cratered under the weight of injuries, coronavirus setbacks and poor play, the Nationals dealt Scherzer to the Los Angeles Dodgers. I wasn’t mad about that. Scherzer was 37. He had done his thing here spectacularly for seven seasons, longer than his stint in Detroit.But when Turner’s name popped up as part of the Scherzer deal, I was staggered. Turner was a first-time all-star. He was just 28.
If you’re selling the team that made you a billion and a half, sell it as-is. Soto should convey. Let the next billionaire owner decide whether to keep as exciting of a player as there is in the game or start anew without him in what almost certainly would become a ghost town of a home stadium. The Soto saga isn’t about a contract for him as much as it is about a contract with us, the fan base. We enriched the Lerners through taxes to build the stadium and this season by
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