{"id":10452,"date":"2015-04-14T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10452"},"modified":"2015-04-14T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:36:24","slug":"forensicanes-campaign-finally-fulfilled-rafael-martin-called-up-cedeno-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10452","title":{"rendered":"Forensicane’s campaign finally fulfilled; Rafael Martin called up & Cedeno axed"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Welcome<\/a>

Welcome to the big show Mr. Martin! photo Nats official<\/p><\/div>\n

So, is that a quick release or what?<\/p>\n

Xavier Cedeno<\/strong>, he who has faced exactly 15 batters<\/a> this season, was DFA’d<\/a> ahead of the Tuesday 4\/14\/15 game as first reported by Mark Zuckerman<\/strong> on twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 In those 15 batters, he gave up 3 hits, 2 walks, one HBP, struck out 4 and got the other 5 guys out somehow.\u00a0 Oh and he threw two wild pitches.\u00a0 Those numbers totaled a 6.00 ERA, a 1.667 WHIP<\/a> and an even higher FIP.\u00a0 But more importantly, it spelled his DFA (since he’s out of options and until a week ago everyone thought he had beaten out Jerry Blevins<\/strong> for the bullpen).<\/p>\n

I also reference the acerbic comments<\/a> of others on twitter: from Half Street Heart Blog<\/a>: “A few days ago, Xavier Cedeno was Matty’s go-to guy with the based loaded and nobody out w\/ a 1-run lead. Now he’s off the roster<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

It is hard to argue with this observation because its true.\u00a0 Yesterday we were wondering why the heck Matt Williams<\/strong> was pitching Cedeno for the 4th time in 5 days despite being 5 runs down in a losing cause … today he’s DFA’d.\u00a0 What he heck is going on??<\/p>\n

In January, I never would have thought that Cedeno had a shot at the team anyway … but I also wouldn’t have thought the team would have dumped Blevins for a 4-A outfielder who we probably didn’t need in a move that smacked of pettiness over the outcome of the off-season’s arbitration result (I reference Ken Rosenthal<\/strong>‘s tweet on the matter here<\/a>).\u00a0 Den Dekker is the TENTH outfielder on our current 40-man roster; the only “real” infielder who isn’t already on the MLB bench in the entire system is Wilmer Difo<\/strong>.\u00a0 To say that the team has a slight imbalance of players on its 40-man right now is an understatement.<\/p>\n

Anyway.\u00a0 To the good news.\u00a0 Long-serving and well-deserving RHP reliever Rafael Martin<\/strong> has been called up, added to the 40- and 25-man and will join the team in Boston.\u00a0 He more than earned this spot with his excellent 2014 numbers, and his career path is the stuff of movies.\u00a0 I say bravo to the Nats for finally recognizing his great minor league performances, and I hope he sticks around.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, is that a quick release or what? Xavier Cedeno, he who has faced exactly 15 batters this season, was DFA’d ahead of the Tuesday 4\/14\/15 game as first reported by Mark Zuckerman on twitter.\u00a0 In those 15 batters, he gave up 3 hits, 2 walks, one HBP, struck out 4 and got the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2123,312,301,1314,69,2650,1786],"class_list":["post-10452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-jerry-blevins","tag-ken-rosenthal","tag-mark-zuckerman","tag-matt-williams","tag-rafael-martin","tag-wilmer-difo","tag-xavier-cedeno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452","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=10452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10455,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions\/10455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}