{"id":10039,"date":"2014-11-21T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10039"},"modified":"2014-11-26T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T14:18:54","slug":"rule-5-fallout-placeholder-for-arguing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10039","title":{"rendered":"Rule 5 fallout: placeholder for arguing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1778\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ColeAJ_APstock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1778\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1778\" alt=\"Welcome to the 40-man roster. Photo AP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ColeAJ_APstock.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ColeAJ_APstock.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ColeAJ_APstock-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to the 40-man roster. Photo AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 11\/20\/14 deadline for adding players to the 40-man roster ahead of the Rule-5 draft has come and gone.\u00a0 <strong>Jonathan Mayo<\/strong> at mlb.com posted an excellent overview of <a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/101926826\/top-prospects-need-protection-from-rule-5-draft\">each team&#8217;s top 20 prospects<\/a> under consideration for protection, which could also be a nice shopping list for some team looking to roll the dice.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/wp\/2014\/11\/20\/nationals-add-a-j-cole-brian-goodwin-wilmer-difo-matt-grace-to-40-man-roster\/\">Nats went and protected<\/a> many more players than I thought hey would.\u00a0 So maybe there&#8217;s not much room for us to argue about who should and shouldn&#8217;t have been protected.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s who we protected: <strong>A.J. Cole, Brian Goodwin, Wilmer Difo, Matt Grace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s notables who we did not protect: <strong>Matt Skole<\/strong> and maybe <strong>Drew Vettleson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My reaction?\u00a0 Slightly surprised they went with four players.\u00a0 No arguments about the value of Difo, just wondering if he realistically could have stuck on a 25-man roster spot all year.\u00a0 No arguments about the players they dumped to make room (<strong>Pedro Florimon<\/strong> and <strong>Ryan Mattheus<\/strong>); most of us questioned why they were even still on the roster given the lack of options and slim chances of making the Nats 25-man roster next spring.\u00a0 Slightly surprised they decided to risk losing Skole, if only because of his proven capabilities.\u00a0 Otherwise, for prospect hounds, this was a good day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-posting update<\/strong>: MLB&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/102323126\/pipeline-perspectives-henry-ramos-jarlin-garcia-are-best-unprotected-prospects\"><strong>Jim Callis<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/102304028\/pipeline-perspectives-cody-martin-delino-deshields-jr-are-top-unprotected-prospects\"><strong>Jonathan Mayo<\/strong><\/a> each posted their thoughts on the best players left unavailable.\u00a0 And Baseball America&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>J.J. Cooper<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/minors\/notable-players-available-rule-5-draft\/\">posted his list of top rule-5 eligible players<\/a>.\u00a0 Cooper mentions Skole in passing but not as a top 10 player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11\/20\/14 deadline for adding players to the 40-man roster ahead of the Rule-5 draft has come and gone.\u00a0 Jonathan Mayo at mlb.com posted an excellent overview of each team&#8217;s top 20 prospects under consideration for protection, which could also be a nice shopping list for some team looking to roll the dice. Our Nats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2039],"tags":[17,257,2236,440,771,1228,733,2090,86,2650],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","category-rule-5","tag-aj-cole","tag-brian-goodwin","tag-drew-vettleson","tag-jim-callis","tag-jj-cooper","tag-matt-grace","tag-matt-skole","tag-pedro-florimon","tag-ryan-mattheus","tag-wilmer-difo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}