huge NL East battle
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If Nats were smart, they'd trade Strasburg. Some team will still buy into the hype and give up a haul for him. Guy is a 3 or 4 pitcher at best. Nothing special at all. 6 inning 4-5 runs a game pitchers are a dime a dozen. Still Ks guys at a nice clip but for most part, pretty average.
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Raise your hand if you thought you'd ever see the day where Ryan Howard was slugging .550 again. Oh yeah, Ryan Howard is back!
A few thoughts from what I watched of this series (all of Saturday, ninth inning of Friday and much of Sunday):
1. While the numbers illustrate this well enough, Nats defense overall is even worse when you watch, errors seem to come from anyplace, anytime, and many players with very limited range (see Desmond below). Obviously not something Genius Mike Rizzo values any place on the diamond. Nats catcher has never been great defensively, even some leftfielder they had in the game Saturday was booting balls out there, and obviously Desmond at the most important defensive position for years. Also not helped by some of the bigger contracts being attached to guys whose defense is in serious decline in R Zimmerman and Werth.
2.If Desmond is not hitting (as he generally has not been this year), he adds nothing. No range, and boots balls left and right as we've seen for years. Still can't believe adp things someone is going to lavish a nine-figure contract on the guy. Not happening. Low baseball IQ at a key defensive position seems to trickle down.
3. JP Santangelo remains extremely difficult to listen to. Annoying voice, and commentary reminscent of Chris Wheeler. No one is a bigger homer. And talks about his playing career like he was something other than a journeyman, end of the bench Ruben Amaro type player. Described Storen's save Friday night as a "big boy save." guy was facing maybe the worst offensive team in baseball in May. We've seen what Storen does with big boy saves in October, wets his pants.
1. While the numbers illustrate this well enough, Nats defense overall is even worse when you watch, errors seem to come from anyplace, anytime, and many players with very limited range (see Desmond below). Obviously not something Genius Mike Rizzo values any place on the diamond. Nats catcher has never been great defensively, even some leftfielder they had in the game Saturday was booting balls out there, and obviously Desmond at the most important defensive position for years. Also not helped by some of the bigger contracts being attached to guys whose defense is in serious decline in R Zimmerman and Werth.
2.If Desmond is not hitting (as he generally has not been this year), he adds nothing. No range, and boots balls left and right as we've seen for years. Still can't believe adp things someone is going to lavish a nine-figure contract on the guy. Not happening. Low baseball IQ at a key defensive position seems to trickle down.
3. JP Santangelo remains extremely difficult to listen to. Annoying voice, and commentary reminscent of Chris Wheeler. No one is a bigger homer. And talks about his playing career like he was something other than a journeyman, end of the bench Ruben Amaro type player. Described Storen's save Friday night as a "big boy save." guy was facing maybe the worst offensive team in baseball in May. We've seen what Storen does with big boy saves in October, wets his pants.
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