PT TOMORROW: NL East—It’s alright, Ma (I’m only bleeding)

Washington Nationals

In one of our first PT TOMORROW: NL East articles of 2019 (“Blood on the tracks”), we shone our spotlight on Ryan Zimmerman (1B, WAS) and wondered what the season would hold for the Nationals’ grizzled warrior. He was coming off another injury-shortened campaign in which he still hit the ball with authority, posting Exit Velocity and Hard Hit% numbers that placed him among the elite sluggers in baseball. Could he reward fantasy GMs with an encore of his (mostly) healthy 2017, or at least mash his way into relevancy with a partial season’s worth of useful power stats?

The answer wasn’t blowin’ in the wind for very long, as Zimmerman hit the IL on April 28 with plantar fasciitis. Two months later, he was back, only to...

Almost!

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