{"id":14699,"date":"2018-04-06T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14699"},"modified":"2018-04-06T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:42:02","slug":"sorry-for-radio-silenceits-the-over-reaction-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14699","title":{"rendered":"Sorry for Radio Silence\/its the Over-reaction Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cole: over reaction to his first start or not? Photo AP<\/p><\/div>\n

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First off, welcome to the 2018 season.\u00a0 Sorry for the lack of material here; its been a heck of a spring.\u00a0 Shifting priorities and a job transition that included basically four months of overlapping tasks has sapped all my spare time.\u00a0 Thanks for keeping the conversation going.\u00a0 Today marks the official end of the main source of time issues … so perhaps starting in the coming weeks i’ll be able to return to all the “fun stuff” that I like to talk about.\u00a0 Minor league pitching staffs, opening day trivia, starter rankings, nats prospect rankings\/farm system rankings analysis, etc.\u00a0 We’ll get there.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, inspired by Keith Law’s frequent answer to questions<\/a> in his chat yesterday,\u00a0 lets have some\u00a0 Over Reactions to the first few games of the season.<\/p>\n

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  1. A.J. Cole<\/strong>‘s first start debacle; disagree with me if you want, but was anyone really, really that surprised by his dud of a first start?\u00a0 If you want to tell me that its just one game, SSS, yadda yadda … then what in his previous time in the majors gave you any impression that he had turned a corner?\u00a0 I didn’t get a chance to post about it, but the signing of\u00a0Jeremy Hellickson<\/strong> to me was a sneaky awesome move .. i absolutely think he can and will slot into that 5th starter spot and give much more competent starts for the big league team going forward.<\/li>\n
  2. Ryan Zimmerman<\/strong>‘s slow start.\u00a0 I have literally never heard of a player who “took off” the entirety of Spring Training like he just did.\u00a0 Now he’s just 3 for 22 and has gotten sat twice in the season’s first week.\u00a0 WTF is going on?\u00a0 I am firmly in belief there’s some unannounced injury issue there that the team for whatever reason is being silent about.<\/li>\n
  3. Koda Glover<\/strong>‘s shoulder.\u00a0 Is Glover the new\u00a0Christian Garcia<\/strong> at this point?\u00a0 He’s now on the 60-day D\/L… is he gonna come back off?<\/li>\n
  4. Adam Eaton<\/strong>‘s ankle.\u00a0 Hmm … considering the irony that the Nats traded not one, not two but eventually three guys who could have eliminated the entire A.J. Cole situation to acquire Eaton … and that he’s played a grand total of 29 games in a Nat’s uniform … any injury, even if minor, seems like a cause for concern.<\/li>\n
  5. Catchers<\/strong>.\u00a0 our three catchers are now a combined 3-22.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I realize its easier to focus on the negatives (above) than the positives (Bryce Harper<\/strong>‘s monster start, the other four starters excelling thus far, Eaton’s great production early).\u00a0 But hey, its also conversation starters.<\/p>\n

    So which of these 5 issues above is really something you’re worried about at this stage?\u00a0 Are you worried about nothing because its 7 games in and nobody should over-react to anything?\u00a0 \u00a0 If I had to rank my 5 issues in terms of worry for me right now, not even being realistic and acknowledging that its still early, blah blah, i’d probably go 1,2,5,4,3.<\/p>\n

    How about you guys?\u00a0 Anybody go to opening day?\u00a0 We had SRO tickets but bailed when it looked like the wind chill was going to be in the 30s.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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