Yesterday, it finally came to a head. The issue everyone kept putting on the backburner finally rushed to the forefront of the Washington Nationals’ spring training season. Alfonso Soriano, the highest paid player of the club, refused to take the field in his assigned role of left fielder against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Fla. Brandon Watson eventually took the field in Soriano’s place, playing centerfield while moving Ryan Church…

See, DCist is taking the positive view of things. Playing their worst baseball of the season, the Nationals left for a thirteen game road trip that began at Houston, the team directly above the Nats in the wild-card standings and the team that just swept the hometown boys in RFK, and they avoided the worst possible outcome. They could have been swept again. They could have lost their entire starting lineup to (further) injury….