{"id":12858,"date":"2016-08-29T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12858"},"modified":"2016-08-29T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:15:18","slug":"are-you-worried-about-the-rotation-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12858","title":{"rendered":"Are you worried about the Rotation too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12702\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GiolitoLucas-mlbdebut-via-wp.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12702\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GiolitoLucas-mlbdebut-via-wp-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"Giolito's latest start does not inspire confidence.   (Photo by John McDonnell \/ The Washington Post)\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GiolitoLucas-mlbdebut-via-wp-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GiolitoLucas-mlbdebut-via-wp.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giolito&#8217;s latest start does not inspire confidence. (Photo by John McDonnell \/ The Washington Post)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(note; i&#8217;m at the beach this week &#8230; so i&#8217;m putting this in as a placeholder for arguing, er I mean discussing).<\/p>\n<p>From the comments section on last week&#8217;s post, clearly we&#8217;re not happy with the bullpen. \u00a0And neither is\u00a0<strong>Mike Rizzo<\/strong>, who caused an uproar amongst the 25 or so people on the planet who knew who\u00a0<strong>Max Schrock<\/strong> was by flipping him for a guy whose name I won&#8217;t even try to spell. \u00a0Our long man blew a comeback effort last weekend that i&#8217;m sure was not well appreciated amongst the vets on the team.<\/p>\n<p>But this post is about the rotation. \u00a0Are you worried yet? \u00a0<strong>Scherzer<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Roark<\/strong> might have hiccups here and there but they&#8217;ll be solid for the playoffs (and yes, at this point i&#8217;m assuming we&#8217;re in the playoffs). \u00a0But is\u00a0<strong>Strasburg<\/strong> going to make it back? \u00a0Is\u00a0<strong>Ross<\/strong>? \u00a0Do we trust\u00a0<strong>Gonzalez<\/strong> in a post-season rotation? \u00a0Is the performance thus far of\u00a0<strong>Giolito<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Lopez<\/strong> just more cause for concern?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(note; i&#8217;m at the beach this week &#8230; so i&#8217;m putting this in as a placeholder for arguing, er I mean discussing). From the comments section on last week&#8217;s post, clearly we&#8217;re not happy with the bullpen. \u00a0And neither is\u00a0Mike Rizzo, who caused an uproar amongst the 25 or so people on the planet who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[385,2691,852,1035,1037,2878,129,1875,38,77],"class_list":["post-12858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-natsgeneral","tag-gio-gonzalez","tag-joe-ross","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-mark-rzepcynski","tag-max-scherzer","tag-max-schrock","tag-mike-rizzo","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-tanner-roark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858","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=12858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12860,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858\/revisions\/12860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}