{"id":13963,"date":"2017-06-06T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13963"},"modified":"2017-06-06T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:18:31","slug":"rafael-martin-dfad-the-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13963","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Martin DFA&#8217;d; the inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10453\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MartinRafael-nats-team-official-2015.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MartinRafael-nats-team-official-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Rough week for Martin. photo Nats official\" width=\"191\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rough week for Martin. photo Nats official<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the news that\u00a0<strong>Jayson Werth<\/strong> had to hit the D\/L and the team suddenly needing a RH hitting options on the bench, new acquisition\u00a0<strong>Ryan Raburn<\/strong> was called into action.<\/p>\n<p>The Nats had finally run out of procedural moves that prevented them from cutting loose someone &#8230; and the answer to the question &#8220;who is the first guy off the 40-Man roster&#8221; this year goes to\u00a0<strong>Rafael Martin<\/strong>. \u00a0Unfortunately for Martin, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2017\/06\/nationals-designate-rafael-martin-for-assignment.html\">DFA&#8217;d yesterday<\/a> to make room for Raburn.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I thought the team would cut loose under-performing AA hurler\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Cordero<\/strong> before Martin &#8230; but he was 2nd on my list. \u00a0He&#8217;s struggled in AAA this year, and has been passed over for promotion by several 2017 NRIs. \u00a0The writing was on the wall, even given his SSS K\/9 rates int he majors. \u00a0This year in Syracuse he&#8217;s sported a kind-of-unlucky 5.21 ERA with a 4\/1 K\/BB rate and a decent 1.27 whip. \u00a0But he&#8217;s also a 33-yr old junk baller who isn&#8217;t exactly a prospect anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll guess he passes through waivers, takes his assignment to AAA and may return to the Mexican league next year.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll always have 2015 though (25 Ks in 12 innings).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With the news that\u00a0Jayson Werth had to hit the D\/L and the team suddenly needing a RH hitting options on the bench, new acquisition\u00a0Ryan Raburn was called into action. The Nats had finally run out of procedural moves that prevented them from cutting loose someone &#8230; and the answer to the question &#8220;who is [&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":[115,3390,69,3575],"class_list":["post-13963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-natsgeneral","tag-jayson-werth","tag-jimmy-cordero","tag-rafael-martin","tag-ryan-raburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963","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=13963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13965,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions\/13965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}