Some Monday morning notes

For anyone who watched the Redskins game yesterday, I'm sorry.

I couldn't bring myself to do it. I flipped the game on for about 45 seconds, watched the Redskins offense turn a first-and-goal into a missed 47-yard field goal and that was about all I needed to see.

This was the team's effort coming out of a bye against a previously one-win Buccaneers squad.

In their last 10 seasons, the Skins have had six sub-.500 campaigns and have gone 63-91. Let's compare that to what the Nationals have done in their 10 years in D.C., shall we? We've got little else going on.

The Nats have had a few putrid seasons, as well, posting winning percentages of .366 and .364 in 2008 and 2009, respectively. But in their 10 years in D.C., the Nats are a combined 772-846. That's a .477 winning percentage, compared to the Redskins' .409 winning percentage over the last decade.

As bad as the Nats were there for a while, they've still been a good bit better than the Redskins since 2005.

The Skins are 1-3 in the postseason over the last 10 years. The Nats are 3-6.

One organization is clearly trending upward. The other, not so much.

Nationals left-hander Jerry Blevins has made three appearances for Team USA in the Japan Series, which is still going on across the globe.

Blevins has yet to allow an earned run in his three innings of work. He did surrender one unearned run, and has allowed three hits and two walks with one strikeout.

The idea of pitchers taking part in games this deep into November after such a long season with their big league teams is baffling to me. Good for those guys for keeping their arms in good enough shape to handle so many innings over such a long time period.

During the 2014 season, Blevins actually was at his best over the final few weeks of the regular season and then into the playoffs.

His final five regular season appearances resulted in a fairly ridiculous stat line (5 1/3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 11 Ks), and Blevins then threw 3 1/3 scoreless innings in the National League Division Series, retiring all 10 batters he faced and striking out two.

The Nats would love it if Blevins is able to somehow carry that into 2015, and have more success against right-handed hitters than he did overall in 2014.

In other news, according to CBSsports.com, Giancarlo Stanton's record 13-year, $325 million deal with the Marlins is now in place and should be finalized soon.

Anyone else feeling depressed after reading those numbers?