{"id":13744,"date":"2017-04-25T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13744"},"modified":"2017-04-25T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:41:48","slug":"turner-good-romero-bad-treinen-ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13744","title":{"rendered":"Turner good, Romero bad, Treinen ugh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nice start for Turner. Photo via WP<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, the title sums it up.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, great to see a quality start out of\u00a0Jacob Turner. \u00a0<\/strong>Good velocity (average of 95.8, peak of 97.6<\/a>) even if most of the 96-97 heaters were early, decent strike ratio (59 of 84), not a ton of swing and miss (just 5 whiffs out of 84 pitches). \u00a0But he walked nobody, got a K\/inning, and kept his team in the game. \u00a0And he was up 4-1 in the 6th before finally giving up a long ball (an inevitability in Denver). \u00a0You can’t ask for much more from a spot starter.<\/p>\n

Certainly better than what\u00a0Jeremy Guthrie<\/strong> gave this team earlier this month<\/p>\n

And once again I bring up the obvious; between Turner’s arm and stuff, and what\u00a0Vance Worley<\/strong> is now doing for AAA New Orleans after his very serviceable 2016, what in the heck were the Nats thinking in giving Guthrie the first crack at spot starts for the big league team?<\/p>\n

Enny Romero<\/strong> gave up the go-ahead homer to another top-notch slugger … but the nit is that as a lefty, he should have had the advantage against\u00a0Charlie Blackmon<\/strong>. \u00a0Instead Blackmon golfed one into the 2nd deck to put his team in the lead. \u00a0Pitchers give up homers, sure. \u00a0But Romero now has a 1.8 WHIP on the year. \u00a0You just cannot have a middle reliever that puts on nearly 2 baserunners every time he gets the ball. \u00a0 I’m guessing Turner sticks around and Romero gets the DFA heave-ho once\u00a0Strasburg<\/strong> catches up on his sleep and re-joins the team.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, is it obvious for me to say that of all the relievers in the bullpen, that\u00a0Blake Treinen<\/strong>‘s stuff most poorly translates to the thin-air environment of Coors? \u00a0Why would he be the choice out of the pen when his whole schtick is movement on his sinking fastball? \u00a0Why was he left in a one run game and allowed to give up 6 hits and basically put the game completely out of reach? \u00a0I guess you could excuse a couple of the hits (the\u00a0Story\u00a0<\/strong>single was a jam job that a better LF might have caught,\u00a0Wolters<\/strong> RBI single was sharply hit but well placed past\u00a0Rendon<\/strong>, who was playing up), but you can’t excuse 6 \u00a0hits and 3 runs.<\/p>\n

What’s the solution? \u00a0Maybe you just say “oh its Coors.” \u00a0Fine. \u00a0But Treinen needs to find his way and fast. \u00a0Our most effective reliever right now seems to be an NRI that we picked up off the street on Feb 1st (Matt Albers<\/strong>). \u00a0That’s not a good thing … because its just a matter of time before he regresses to the mean as well. \u00a0No wonder the Nats are “sniffing around<\/a>” on bullpen help. \u00a0Maybe something they should have done a better job at doing this past off-season.<\/p>\n

I think Treinen might be one more blow-up from an option to AAA to clear his head. \u00a0Keep Turner up; if he’s throwing 96-97 during starts, he’ll be fine in middle relief. \u00a0 DFA Romero and bring up Adams<\/strong>\u00a0to see if his 2017 AAA numbers are legit. \u00a0Can’t be any worse, right?<\/p>\n

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Well, the title sums it up. On the plus side, great to see a quality start out of\u00a0Jacob Turner. \u00a0Good velocity (average of 95.8, peak of 97.6) even if most of the 96-97 heaters were early, decent strike ratio (59 of 84), not a ton of swing and miss (just 5 whiffs out of 84 […]<\/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":[185,3379,1693,2595,2723,3445,1458,2030,3438,38,3307,429],"class_list":["post-13744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-natsgeneral","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-austin-adams","tag-blake-treinen","tag-charlie-blackmon","tag-david-robertson","tag-enny-romero","tag-jacob-turner","tag-jeremy-guthrie","tag-matt-albers","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-trevor-story","tag-vance-worley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744","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=13744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13748,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions\/13748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}