{"id":14422,"date":"2017-09-29T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14422"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:20:53","slug":"whos-on-your-post-season-roster-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14422","title":{"rendered":"Who’s on your Post Season roster NOW?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Robles<\/a>

Robles has gone from the AFL to the post-season roster. Photo via milb.com<\/p><\/div>\n

We posted this same topic just about a month ago<\/a> on 8\/26\/17.\u00a0 But the topic keeps coming up in the comments, we’ve had a month of players flowing on and off the D\/L, so we’re back to it.<\/p>\n

I’ll just post my 2 cents without a ton of commentary and lets have at it.<\/p>\n

SPs:\u00a0Scherzer, Strasburg, Gonzalez, Roark<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Despite his nice outing last night and despite iffy starts from Gio and Roark lately, Jackson<\/strong> is out of the picture.\u00a0 Did you know Gonzalez is 3rd in the majors in pitching bWAR right now?<\/p>\n

RPs:\u00a0\u00a0Doolittle*, Madsen, Kintzler, Albers, Perez*,\u00a0 Romero*,\u00a0 Solis*\/Kelley, Grace*\/Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some clarity in the last month here, with Glover’s shelving and Madsen’s return.\u00a0 But there’s still some question marks.\u00a0 Kelley’s arm injury puts his spot in jeopardy, but at the expense of who?\u00a0 Solis has looked great lately and was solid in last year’s playoffs irrespective of his ugly seasonal ERA.\u00a0 But can this team go into a post-season with 5 lefties in the pen?\u00a0 Why not right?\u00a0 I put slash lines in here because i think the last two spots come down to matchups; if they decide they need more RHP relievers versus Chicago, look for Jackson to make it.\u00a0 If they think they need more lefites (ahem, Los Angeles), then look for both Solis and Grace to be in there.<\/p>\n

I think the first 5 names are locks.\u00a0 The rest is still up in the air.<\/p>\n

Starters: Turner,\u00a0Harper,\u00a0Zimmerman,\u00a0Murphy,\u00a0Rendon,\u00a0Werth,\u00a0Wieters,\u00a0Taylor\u00a0<\/strong>(also my proposed lineup, not that it’ll happen)<\/p>\n

No surprises here; yes I know Werth has lost 100 points off his seasonal OPS just this month, but I just cannot see the team sitting him for the playoffs in the last games he likely plays as a Nat.\u00a0 Harper’s back, lets hope he’s healthy.<\/p>\n

Bench: Lobaton, Lind, Kendrick, Difo, Robles<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, I don’t think the team takes Severino<\/strong> over Lobaton.\u00a0 Lind and Kendrick are locks and Kendrick is first man up to start in the OF if something happens to either Werth or Harper.\u00a0 Difo makes it over\u00a0 Drew even if he makes it back; you just can’t go into the playoffs with no game experience.<\/p>\n

So it comes down to the big question; who is the 5th bench guy?\u00a0 de Aza<\/strong> might have looked great with his GWRBI against Pittsburgh … but he’s been god awful at the plate.\u00a0 If Goodwin<\/strong> was healthy this is a no brainer.\u00a0 But he’s not and he hasn’t played in 6 weeks and the team needs someone who actually has seen MLB pitching in the last month.\u00a0 So its Robles.<\/p>\n

Debate.\u00a0 Where do you think i’m wrong?<\/p>\n

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We posted this same topic just about a month ago on 8\/26\/17.\u00a0 But the topic keeps coming up in the comments, we’ve had a month of players flowing on and off the D\/L, so we’re back to it. I’ll just post my 2 cents without a ton of commentary and lets have at it. SPs:\u00a0Scherzer, […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-14422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422","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=14422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14467,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}