{"id":10111,"date":"2014-12-17T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T03:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10111"},"modified":"2014-12-18T08:38:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T13:38:16","slug":"nats-turn-souzaott-into-turnerross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10111","title":{"rendered":"Nats turn Souza\/Ott into Turner\/Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9671\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SouzaStephen-Nats-offical-TommyGilligan.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9671\" class=\"wp-image-9671 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SouzaStephen-Nats-offical-TommyGilligan.jpg-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"So long Souza.  Photo Nats official\/Tommy Gilligan\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SouzaStephen-Nats-offical-TommyGilligan.jpg-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SouzaStephen-Nats-offical-TommyGilligan.jpg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So long Souza. Photo Nats official\/Tommy Gilligan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Throwing up this post for comments that are leaking into the previous post.<\/p>\n<p>Late Wednesday afternoon, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/wp\/2014\/12\/17\/nationals-send-steven-souza-jr-to-rays-to-receive-trea-turner-joe-ross-from-padres\/\">trade revolving around<\/a> the 2013 Rookie of the Year <strong>Wil Myers<\/strong> started circulating, and suddenly the Nats were involved.\u00a0 When the dust settled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nats send <strong>Steven Souza<\/strong> and <strong>Travis Ott<\/strong> to Tampa<\/li>\n<li>Tampa sends Wil Myers (and three others) to San Diego<\/li>\n<li>San Diego sends <strong>Joe Ross<\/strong> and <strong>Trea Turner<\/strong> to Washington (as well as several other players to Tampa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20141217&amp;content_id=104334678&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;vkey=news_l118&amp;sid=l118\">full 11 players dealt here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say it was much of a surprise of a trade, upon hearing that the Nats were shipping off new fan favorite <strong>Steven Souza<\/strong>.\u00a0 Souza, at best, was slated to be the Nats 5th outfielder in 2015, thanks to the $5M still owed to 4th outfielder <strong>Nate McLouth<\/strong>.\u00a0 And, the Nats longer term OF hole is in Center, not left or right, where Souza projects to eventually play for the Tampa Bay Rays.\u00a0 In this regard, <strong>Michael Taylor<\/strong> is the more valuable prospect to hold on to, as he naturally slots into center once <strong>Denard Span<\/strong> leaves town.\u00a0 Yes I know Souza *can* play center &#8230; consider who the GM is and what his defensive priorities have always been.<\/p>\n<p>Who do the Nats get back?\u00a0 How about two first rounders, two top 10 organizational talents in the San Diego system.\u00a0 Turner is the catch; a college junior draftee who split time between short- and low-A this year and who BA ranks in their top 100 prospects in all of baseball.\u00a0 They also get Joe Ross, a 21-yr old who ended up in AA (and who likely starts there again in 2015) with ok-to-decent numbers so far in his starting career.\u00a0 (Note: since Turner was a 2014 rule4 draftee, he cannot &#8220;officially&#8221; be traded until a year has passed, so we&#8217;ll see him in June.\u00a0 Lets hope he doesn&#8217;t break a leg in the meantime).<\/p>\n<p>The team also gives up Ott, a sneaky prospect who excelled as a very young lefty starter in short-A this year, one of the younger guys in the league.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a lottery ticket for Tampa, but he&#8217;s just the right kind of player for a team with the patience of the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Souza likely fits directly into the starting RF position just vacated by Myers, and Tampa nets a slew of prospects from both teams (as is their penchant).\u00a0 In that respect, I think its a great move for Souza; he wasn&#8217;t going to play in DC save for injury, but he&#8217;ll get his shot there.<\/p>\n<p>I like the deal for the Nats; I like the return, I like the planning ahead Rizzo is doing for middle infield depth, and he dealt from a position of strength (close-to-the-majors OF talent) without giving up a starting piece for next year.\u00a0 I would have liked to have seen what Souza was capable of &#8230; but I also wouldn&#8217;t have moved any of our OF starters for him, so in that respect he was an asset looking to be cashed in.\u00a0 Good move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throwing up this post for comments that are leaking into the previous post. 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