{"id":14464,"date":"2017-10-06T11:14:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14464"},"modified":"2017-10-06T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:15:33","slug":"nlds-roster-announced-who-made-it-who-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14464","title":{"rendered":"Nats NLDS Roster Announced; who made it, who didn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4747\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StrasburgStephen_Landing_unk-via-thewifehatessports.com_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4747\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4747\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4747\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StrasburgStephen_Landing_unk-via-thewifehatessports.com_-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Strasburg gets the Game 1 nod. Photo unk via thewifehatessports.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StrasburgStephen_Landing_unk-via-thewifehatessports.com_-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StrasburgStephen_Landing_unk-via-thewifehatessports.com_.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strasburg gets the Game 1 nod. Photo unk via thewifehatessports.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After two posts (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14325\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14422\">here<\/a>) and multiple discussions about the edges of the roster, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalbaseball.com\/2017\/10\/6\/16435322\/washington-nationals-release-nlds-roster-chicago-cubs-victor-robles-and-brian-goodwin-make-cut\">team announced its NLDS roster<\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s who made it and who didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>SPs:\u00a0<strong>Strasburg, Gonzalez, Scherzer, Roark<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know what order it&#8217;ll go, but we do know Stras goes tonight.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m guessing it goes Gio then Scherzer to give him a bit more time.<\/p>\n<p>RPs:\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Doolittle*, Madsen, Kintzler, Albers, Perez*,\u00a0 Romero*,\u00a0 Solis*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, no Kelley (which we knew when he got bumped to the 60-day D\/L), but more interestingly no <strong>Edwin Jackson<\/strong> or <strong>Matt Grace<\/strong>, his two best long-man options.\u00a0 And contrary to typical playoff construction, he&#8217;s using the 5th starter spot not on another arm, but on a bench bat.\u00a0 Perhaps their thought process is, if Scherzer can&#8217;t go they&#8217;ll get an injury replacement?<\/p>\n<p>Starters:\u00a0<strong>Turner,\u00a0Harper,\u00a0Zimmerman,\u00a0Murphy,\u00a0Rendon,\u00a0Werth,\u00a0Wieters,\u00a0Taylor\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No surprises here.<\/p>\n<p>Bench:\u00a0<strong>Lobaton, Lind, Kendrick, Difo, Robles, Goodwin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, they resisted the temptation to take\u00a0<strong>Severino<\/strong> over Lobaton, or to give\u00a0<strong>Drew<\/strong> a spot.\u00a0 But interestingly they are going to carry Goodwin, who hasn&#8217;t played in weeks really.\u00a0 And we get Robles.\u00a0 And we do not have\u00a0<strong>de Aza<\/strong>, which many were worried about.\u00a0 So this is a pretty solid selection all things considered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two posts (here and here) and multiple discussions about the edges of the roster, the team announced its NLDS roster.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s who made it and who didn&#8217;t. SPs:\u00a0Strasburg, Gonzalez, Scherzer, Roark. We don&#8217;t know what order it&#8217;ll go, but we do know Stras goes tonight.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m guessing it goes Gio then Scherzer to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2036],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","category-post-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464","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=14464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14470,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions\/14470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}