1. Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg and Patrick Corbin combined for 702 strikeouts last season, more than any other trio of National League teammates accumulated in 2018.

2. Opening Day 2019 marks the 10-year anniversary for Mike Rizzo in the role of General Manager for the Washington Nationals. Rizzo was promoted to General Manager and president of baseball operations in '13.

3. Two-time All-Star Ryan Zimmerman enters the 2019 season with 11 career walk-off home runs. That leaves ZIM just two shy of the all-time MLB record held by Hall of Famer Jim Thome.

4. Outfielder Victor Robles made his MLB debut in 2017 and later made that year’s Postseason roster for the Nats. Still just 21, Robles enters ‘19 as the fourth-best prospect in baseball as ranked by MLB.com.

5. Since the start of the 2017 season, Anthony Rendon leads all National League position players in Wins Above Replacement as measured by FanGraphs (fWAR).

6. Eight new faces have joined the 2019 Nationals roster. Pitchers Corbin, Aníbal Sánchez, Jeremy Hellickson and Trevor Rosenthal and Tony Sipp, infielders Matt Adams and Brian Dozier, and catcher Kurt Suzuki all signed with the Nats as free agents, joining a roster already brimming with talent. Rizzo also executed an October trade for relief pitcher Kyle Barraclough, and a later deal with the Indians that brought catcher Yan Gomes into the ranks.

7. Since the start of the 2012 season, only seven relievers in MLB have a lower fielding-independent pitching (FIP) mark than Rosenthal (minimum of 300 IP).

One of them is Sean Doolittle.

8. Nationals baserunners have accumulated more steals than all but two MLB teams since the start of 2017. With Trea Turner, Adam Eaton and Michael A. Taylor all returning and a full season of Robles’ wheels on tap, the 2019 Nats should also have the need … the need for speed!

9. The Phillies in town usually means a #CurlyW. Since the start of 2012, the Nats have a 42-25 record against Philadelphia at Nationals Park, including nine walk-off wins.

10. Juan Soto aka #ChildishBambino is The Greatest Teenage Hitter of All Time. Last year he posted an OPS of .923, besting Mel Ott’s mark for OPS in a season as a teenager, an MLB record which stood for 90 years.

11. In the history of baseball there has been exactly one instance of a shortstop stealing 50 bases and hitting 20 home runs in the same season. Over the course of his career, Turner has a 162-game average of 56 stolen bases and 20 home runs.

12. Scherzer enters the 2019 season in sole possession of 41st place on MLB’s all-time strikeout leaderboard with 2,449 career Ks. In his four years with the Nats, Scherzer has averaged 282 strikeouts a season. If he achieves that number in ‘19, he’ll pass at least 15 players on that list, including seven Hall of Famers.

13. Since the start of the 2015 season, Dozier has hit 125 home runs. No other second baseman has more than 100.

14. Over his final eight starts of the 2018 season, Strasburg pitched to a 3.43 ERA and struck out 55 batters in 44 2/3 innings. The Nats went 7-1 in those starts.

15. The Nats enter 2019 with a streak of seven consecutive winning seasons. Since ‘12, the Nationals have accumulated more wins (637) than all but one team in MLB.

16. Big City’s return to the Nationals should mean big things for fans in the nation’s capital. Adams hit 13 of his career-high 21 home runs in just 46 games at Nationals Park in 2018.

17. This season, catching duties will be handled by Gomes and Suzuki. In 2018, Gomes and Suzuki finished fourth and fifth, respectively, among MLB catchers in slugging percentage (minimum 300 PA). Their combined 28 homers were more than any single player or pair of teammates at the catcher position.

18. More than 18 months removed from successful Tommy John surgery, a healthy Joe Ross aims to anchor a stacked Nationals starting rotation. Over the first seven starts of his career, Ross struck out 47 batters and issued just four walks, setting an MLB record for K/9 ratio (11.75) to begin a career.

19. Only six pitchers in the NL threw at least 130 IP and posted an ERA lower than Anibal Sanchez’s 2.83 mark in 2018. Heading into ‘19, the Nats are the only team with four pitchers who ranked in the Top 25 in ERA among NL starters last season.