{"id":15356,"date":"2018-08-21T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T19:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15356"},"modified":"2018-08-21T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T19:37:16","slug":"nats-finally-wave-the-white-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15356","title":{"rendered":"Nats (finally) wave the white flag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nats drop kicked Murphy to Chicago. photo via federalbaseball.com<\/p><\/div>\n

It feels like perhaps it was 3 weeks too late … but today the Nats started trading away whoever they could get through waivers for whatever they could get in return.<\/p>\n

Moved so far:\u00a0Daniel Murphy<\/strong> and\u00a0Matt Adams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Apparently not moving due to negotiations:\u00a0Bryce Harper<\/strong> (you gotta hang on to that supplemental 4th round pick you’re picking up for him!).<\/p>\n

Still worth moving: all our other FAs to be, which are\u00a0Matt Wieters, Gio Gonzalez, Ryan Madsen,\u00a0<\/strong>Joaquin Benoit<\/strong> (a great use of payroll he was),\u00a0Kelvin Herrera<\/strong>,\u00a0Jeremy Hellickson<\/strong>, and\u00a0Mark Reynolds<\/strong>.\u00a0 And maybe\u00a0Tim Collins<\/strong> and\u00a0Tommy Milone<\/strong> too.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how much you could get back for any in that last group; maybe someone wants to take a flier on Hellickson or Herrera.\u00a0 Reynolds could be a bench bat for some contender once the rosters expand.\u00a0 The rest are either at replacement level or hurt.<\/p>\n

I’d like to take this time to note just how much payroll is coming off the books for the coming off-season FA period:\u00a0 $94M.\u00a0 That’s right: $94M.<\/p>\n