But for a few cities in flyover country the baseball season is effectively over, and the rest of the nation has turned its full attention to the gridiron. In Washington, the story is no different, this being the peak of the D.C. sporting year, and the Post is in full Skins swing, plastering banner photographs on Monday editions above war news and natural disasters. For real baseball towns, however, the offseason is an art in and of itself. It will be a while before we can rock it New York style, with full page daily scoops on the back office goings-on of one or another local club, but you’ve got to start somewhere. DCist wants to help inaugurate the inaugural offseason with a nod toward the season’s highlights.

The Nats finished at at 81-81 (much better than some of the preseason predictions we asked people for), a 14 game improvement over last season, and the team drew over 2.7 million fans to the loveable, clunky spaceship by the Anacostia. The team finished in last place in the NL East, nine games back of the infernal Braves, but had a better record than 14 other teams and wasn’t eliminated from the playoffs until the last week of the season, despite scoring fewer runs than any other team in the majors.

Now here’s the complete wrap-up: