Three big stories came out about the Nationals on Wednesday. In order of least to most important:

1. Bryce Harper and Jonathan Papelbon are making up, and Bryce seems to be taking the lead.
2. Mike Maddux will be the new pitching coach. He did a great job with Texas, especially this year with an injury-filled rotation.
3. The arbitration case the Nationals won against the Orioles was thrown out.
   

   ”MASN and the Orioles have established that their well-documented concerns fell on entirely deaf ears,” Marks wrote. ”The court concludes that this complete inaction objectively demonstrates an utter lack of concern for fairness of the proceeding.”

   Sounds like they’ll need to go back and do it again.