A year ago, Major League Baseball in the District was just a gleam in the eye of boosters like the Washington Baseball Club. There existed in these 10 miles square but a handful of weblogs devoted to the sport, mostly by anchorless amateur sabermetricians who liked to argue for paying attention to OPS and against stealing bases.

Finally, Bud Selig made the long-awaited announcement that Washington would be getting its first baseball team in a generation, and a few future Nats fans set up shop in the blog world. But not until early this year, after all the major hurdles were cleared, did the D.C. blog scene start booming. Today there are at least 20 such blogs operating, and surely more on the way.

With two weeks to go before an as-yet-undetermined someone throws out the first pitch, DCist thought it would be fun to give a rundown of the best of those Nats blogs, in no particular order: