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Nationals interested in making move for Blackmon
- Updated: July 20, 2016
The Washington Nationals rank last among Major League Baseball teams in OPS from the leadoff spot. As a group, their center fielders are third from the bottom.
It’s not surprising, then, that they’ve had trade talks with the Colorado Rockies about Charlie Blackmon — a productive, leadoff-hitting center fielder.
The Nationals and Rockies have engaged in “preliminary” dialogue about a deal that would send Blackmon to Washington, sources say. While Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo also is trying to upgrade a bullpen that buckled in the 2012 and 2014 playoffs, Blackmon would address a glaring need.
For all the questions that follow players with huge numbers at Coors Field — as Blackmon has — even his .790 road OPS this year would be a substantial upgrade over the .611 posted by Nationals center fielders.
Most recently, Nationals manager Dusty Baker has moved rookie Trea Turner atop the order. …
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