Washington Nationals

58 seasons · 1969–2026 · 4,397–4,739 (.481) · 1 pennant · 1 World Series

Season by season

58 seasons, newest first. The year links to that season across all of baseball.

Year	Lg	Div	W	L	W–L%	Finish	R	RA	Result
2026	NL	—	66	74	.471	—	—	—
2025	NL	E	66	96	.407	5th	687	899
2024	NL	E	71	91	.438	4th	660	764
2023	NL	E	71	91	.438	5th	700	845
2022	NL	E	55	107	.340	5th	603	855
2021	NL	E	65	97	.401	5th	724	820
2020	NL	E	26	34	.433	4th	293	301
2019	NL	E	93	69	.574	2nd	873	724	World Series
2018	NL	E	82	80	.506	2nd	771	682
2017	NL	E	97	65	.599	1st	819	672	Division
2016	NL	E	95	67	.586	1st	763	612	Division
2015	NL	E	83	79	.512	2nd	703	635
2014	NL	E	96	66	.593	1st	686	555	Division
2013	NL	E	86	76	.531	2nd	656	626
2012	NL	E	98	64	.605	1st	731	594	Division
2011	NL	E	80	81	.497	3rd	624	643
2010	NL	E	69	93	.426	5th	655	742
2009	NL	E	59	103	.364	5th	710	874
2008	NL	E	59	102	.366	5th	641	825
2007	NL	E	73	89	.451	4th	673	783
2006	NL	E	71	91	.438	5th	746	872
2005	NL	E	81	81	.500	5th	639	673
2004	NL	E	67	95	.414	5th	635	769
2003	NL	E	83	79	.512	4th	711	716
2002	NL	E	83	79	.512	2nd	735	718
2001	NL	E	68	94	.420	5th	670	812
2000	NL	E	67	95	.414	4th	738	902
1999	NL	E	68	94	.420	4th	718	853
1998	NL	E	65	97	.401	4th	644	783
1997	NL	E	78	84	.481	4th	691	740
1996	NL	E	88	74	.543	2nd	741	668
1995	NL	E	66	78	.458	5th	621	638
1994	NL	E	74	40	.649	1st	585	454
1993	NL	E	94	68	.580	2nd	732	682
1992	NL	E	87	75	.537	2nd	648	581
1991	NL	E	71	90	.441	6th	579	655
1990	NL	E	85	77	.525	3rd	662	598
1989	NL	E	81	81	.500	4th	632	630
1988	NL	E	81	81	.500	3rd	628	592
1987	NL	E	91	71	.562	3rd	741	720
1986	NL	E	78	83	.484	4th	637	688
1985	NL	E	84	77	.522	3rd	633	636
1984	NL	E	78	83	.484	5th	593	585
1983	NL	E	82	80	.506	3rd	677	646
1982	NL	E	86	76	.531	3rd	697	616
1981	NL	E	60	48	.556	2nd	443	394	Division
1980	NL	E	90	72	.556	2nd	694	629
1979	NL	E	95	65	.594	2nd	701	581
1978	NL	E	76	86	.469	4th	633	611
1977	NL	E	75	87	.463	5th	665	736
1976	NL	E	55	107	.340	6th	531	734
1975	NL	E	75	87	.463	5th	601	690
1974	NL	E	79	82	.491	4th	662	657
1973	NL	E	79	83	.488	4th	668	702
1972	NL	E	70	86	.449	5th	513	609
1971	NL	E	71	90	.441	5th	622	729
1970	NL	E	73	89	.451	6th	687	807
1969	NL	E	52	110	.321	6th	582	791

A dash is a value the source has not published — the season still being played has no final run totals. An empty result column means the club did not win any of those things that year, except in 1994, when a strike ended the season before the postseason, and in a season still under way — then there was nothing to win.

Career leaders with this club

Top 20 by wins above replacement accumulated with the Washington Nationals, and the same for pitchers. Seasons where a player was mostly somewhere else are not counted here.

Batting20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Gary Carter	1974–1992	49.0	1,503	6,019	1,427	220	823	.269
Tim Raines	1979–2001	45.4	1,456	6,268	1,625	97	561	.301
Andre Dawson	1976–1986	42.1	1,443	6,138	1,575	225	838	.280
Ryan Zimmerman	2005–2021	41.1	1,799	7,401	1,846	284	1,061	.277
Vladimir Guerrero	1996–2003	34.1	1,004	4,220	1,215	234	702	.323
Tim Wallach	1980–1992	31.9	1,767	7,174	1,694	204	905	.259
Bryce Harper	2012–2018	30.6	927	3,957	922	184	521	.279
Anthony Rendon	2013–2019	28.5	916	3,927	994	136	546	.290
Juan Soto	2018–2022	25.5	617	2,666	612	125	374	.287
Trea Turner	2015–2021	24.4	689	3,029	839	103	334	.303
Rusty Staub	1969–1971	20.0	480	2,062	508	78	270	.296
Jose Vidro	1997–2006	19.9	1,186	4,753	1,280	115	550	.301
Bob Bailey	1969–1975	19.8	951	3,548	791	118	466	.264
CJ Abrams	2022–2026	19.7	654	2,718	623	88	302	.253
Ian Desmond	2009–2015	19.3	927	3,793	917	110	432	.264
Ron Fairly	1969–1974	17.3	748	2,716	629	86	339	.275
Marquis Grissom	1989–1994	16.2	698	2,925	747	54	276	.279
Rondell White	1993–2000	15.6	761	3,095	830	103	391	.294
Larry Walker	1989–1994	15.4	674	2,690	666	99	384	.281
Jayson Werth	2011–2017	14.9	808	3,427	781	109	393	.263

Pitching20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	W	L	SV	IP	SO	ERA
Steve Rogers	1973–1985	48.0	399	158	152	2	2837.7	1,621	3.17
Max Scherzer	2015–2021	32.1	200	99	47	0	1297.3	1,699	2.75
Stephen Strasburg	2010–2022	31.7	247	113	62	0	1470.0	1,723	3.24
Dennis Martinez	1986–1993	23.2	243	100	72	1	1615.7	975	3.07
Gio Gonzalez	2012–2018	20.5	218	89	65	0	1278.7	1,237	3.59
Javier Vazquez	1998–2003	20.5	192	64	68	0	1229.3	1,076	4.16
Bryn Smith	1981–1989	20.3	284	81	71	6	1400.3	838	3.28
Pedro Martinez	1994–1997	19.1	118	55	33	1	797.3	843	3.06
Bill Gullickson	1979–1985	18.3	176	72	61	0	1186.3	678	3.44
Jeff Fassero	1991–1996	17.4	262	58	48	10	850.0	750	3.20
Jordan Zimmermann	2009–2015	16.7	178	70	50	0	1094.0	903	3.32
Livan Hernandez	2003–2011	14.1	199	72	73	0	1337.7	852	3.92
Scott Sanderson	1978–1983	12.4	149	56	47	2	883.0	603	3.33
Dustin Hermanson	1997–2000	9.3	136	43	47	4	759.7	529	3.98
Tanner Roark	2013–2018	9.2	182	64	54	1	935.0	732	3.59
Charlie Lea	1980–1987	8.7	128	55	41	0	793.3	463	3.32
Pascual Perez	1987–1989	8.4	70	28	21	0	456.7	341	2.80
Ken Hill	1992–1994	8.2	84	41	21	0	556.3	325	3.04
Woodie Fryman	1975–1983	8.1	310	53	56	52	777.3	497	3.38
David Palmer	1978–1985	7.8	122	38	26	2	576.7	370	3.26

Best single seasons

The highest wins above replacement any Washington Nationals player has put up in one year.

BattingHR · RBI · AVG

1	Bryce Harper2015 · 42 HR · 99 RBI · .330	10.4
2	Juan Soto2021 · 29 HR · 95 RBI · .313	7.9
3	Gary Carter1982 · 29 HR · 97 RBI · .293	7.8
4	Rusty Staub1969 · 29 HR · 79 RBI · .302	7.7
5	Tim Raines1984 · 8 HR · 60 RBI · .309	7.7
6	Andre Dawson1981 · 24 HR · 64 RBI · .302	7.1
7	Anthony Rendon2019 · 34 HR · 126 RBI · .319	6.7
8	Gary Carter1984 · 27 HR · 106 RBI · .294	6.7
9	Andre Dawson1983 · 32 HR · 113 RBI · .299	6.7
10	Andre Dawson1980 · 17 HR · 87 RBI · .308	6.6

PitchingW · SO · ERA

1	Pedro Martinez1997 · 17 W · 305 SO · 1.90	7.5
2	Steve Rogers1977 · 17 W · 206 SO · 3.10	6.6
3	Steve Rogers1982 · 19 W · 179 SO · 2.40	6.4
4	Max Scherzer2018 · 18 W · 300 SO · 2.53	6.0
5	Jeff Fassero1996 · 15 W · 222 SO · 3.30	6.0
6	Max Scherzer2019 · 11 W · 243 SO · 2.92	5.6
7	Pedro Martinez1996 · 13 W · 222 SO · 3.70	5.3
8	Max Scherzer2015 · 14 W · 276 SO · 2.79	5.2
9	Max Scherzer2017 · 16 W · 268 SO · 2.51	5.2
10	Javier Vazquez2001 · 16 W · 208 SO · 3.42	5.1

Names this club has played under

Name	Years	Seasons
Montreal Expos	1969–2004	36
Washington Nationals	2005–2026	22

How this page is built

Every row below is the club's own season, 1969 to 2026. That is 58 of them, 4,397–4,739 in all, a winning percentage of .481. One World Series — 2019.

Wins and losses on this page come straight from the source; the player tables do not. A season line in this database carries one club, the one where the player took the most plate appearances — or, for a pitcher, recorded the most outs — that year. So a player traded in July is credited to one side of the trade and not the other, and the career totals below are the club he mostly played for rather than a strict split. Wins above replacement is worked out per season here, and a season cannot be cut in half without recomputing it on a different basis, which would leave two numbers on this site that disagree. One basis, stated, is the honest version of that trade-off.

This club has played under 2 names. It began as the Montreal Expos in 1969 and is the Washington Nationals now. The names, and the years each one covers, are listed further down. Relocations and renamings are kept together because the franchise is the thing that continued, which is also how the record books treat it.

What the columns mean, and where the franchise begins

Finishing position means a different thing before and after divisions arrived in 1969. Also: why the club's history starts in 1969 here, and what the run columns are for.

The franchise boundary is the source database's, not ours. Each season carries a franchise identifier, and that identifier is what groups the rows on this page. It merges moves and renamings — Brooklyn and Los Angeles are one club under it — and it also keeps some things apart that share a city and a nickname: the National Association clubs of 1871 to 1875 are separate franchises from the National League clubs that followed them in the same towns. We could have merged those by hand, and then this page would carry a career record that no published source agrees with. Following the identifier means the totals here can be checked against somebody else's.

The best and worst of it: 2012 and 1969. The 2012 club went 98–64 (.605); the 1969 club went 52–110 (.321). Schedules were not always the same length — a nineteenth-century season could be seventy games and 2020 was sixty — so read the percentage rather than the win column when the two are far apart in time.

Finishing position means different things in different eras. Before 1969 there were no divisions, so the finish column is the club's place in the whole league. From 1969 it is the place within a division, which is a smaller field, and a third place in a six-team division is not the same achievement as a third place in a ten-team league. The division column says which one applies. Nothing on this page is postseason record: the wins and losses are regular season only, and the World Series, pennant and division marks in the result column say what the club went on to win, not how it did once it got there.

Runs scored and runs allowed are here because they explain the record. A club that wins more games than its run difference suggests has usually won a lot of close ones, and that tends not to repeat. The two columns are the cheapest way to see whether a season was as good as its win total, and they are the input to most of the modern estimates of how many games a team should have won. They are blank for the season still being played where the source has not published them yet.

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). This page groups the source database's team seasons by its franchise identifier and adds up the Washington Nationals careers of the players on the season pages. — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.