Happy Leap Day! Hopefully the Nats will LEAP into some Spring Training success this weekend (my fingers totally made that awful pun on their own).  It’s a lot of hurry up and wait until then, but where there’s baseball, there’s news.  Leggo!

-Apparently its unlucky if you’re a young Nats pitcher and DON’T have Tommy John surgery.  Sammy Solis will join the TJ club with Strasburg and Zimmermann soon. [Federal Baseball]

-Ian Desmond has shed a few pounds, but he’ll have to really step up to shed those expectations in 2012. [Comak]

-Possibly the most devastating news in a while: Bryce Harper is off Twitter. The Nationals are such fun-suckers. [Nats Enquirer]

-Everything involving Adam LaRoche’s recovery seems to be going well and right on schedule. [District on Deck]

-Ah, the enigma that is Ryan Mattheus.  He has the talent to be a permanent bullpen presence, but will he be able to string together enough performances to earn it? [Nats Journal]