{"id":130,"date":"2010-08-19T13:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2012-10-11T13:17:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T17:17:47","slug":"nats-transactions-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Nats Transactions for today &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nieves <\/strong>out for the birth of his kid, so wonder kid\/future Nieves replacement<strong> Wilson Ramos<\/strong> (booty in the <strong>Matt Capps<\/strong> trade) comes up and gets a start today.\u00a0 Ironically (and potentially an omen) Ramos gets #3, which has been <strong>Flores<\/strong>&#8216; number since he was picked up in 06.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t bode well for Flores&#8217;s future here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Willingham <\/strong>to the DL, done for the year but coinciding with <strong>Morgan<\/strong>&#8216;s return.\u00a0 So we&#8217;ll be throwing out an outfield of <strong>Bernadina<\/strong>, Morgan and <strong>Morse <\/strong>for the time being.\u00a0 Not bad.<\/p>\n<p>But I did see an interesting note that the Rockies are getting ready to flat out release <strong>Brad Hawpe<\/strong>.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Partly because they know they can&#8217;t resign him in the off season and are wary of offering him arbitration.\u00a0 But mostly becuase he&#8217;s underperformed this year and the Rockies want to play a up and comer named <strong>Eric Young Jr.<\/strong> Either way, his numbers are not THAT bad, i hope we sign him just so we could offer him arbitration and get the draft picks (he projects as a type A) or even if he accepts arbitration he&#8217;s better than Morse in right field, right?<\/p>\n<p>Probably though, he signs on with a contender to be a 4th outfielder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nieves out for the birth of his kid, so wonder kid\/future Nieves replacement Wilson Ramos (booty in the Matt Capps trade) comes up and gets a start today.\u00a0 Ironically (and potentially an omen) Ramos gets #3, which has been Flores&#8216; number since he was picked up in 06.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t bode well for Flores&#8217;s future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[1134,1135,112,580,434,136,122,167,990,147],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball","category-natsgeneral","tag-brad-hawpe","tag-eric-young-jr","tag-jesus-flores","tag-josh-willingham","tag-matt-capps","tag-michael-morse","tag-nyjer-morgan","tag-roger-bernadina","tag-wil-nieves","tag-wilson-ramos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}