{"id":15622,"date":"2019-01-10T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2019-01-10T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:21:17","slug":"quick-dozier-signing-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15622","title":{"rendered":"Quick Dozier signing reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15624\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DozierBrian-via-mlbtraderumors.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15624\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15624\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DozierBrian-via-mlbtraderumors.jpg\" alt=\"Dozier slides nicely into the 2B hole on the Nats roster. Photo via mlbtraderumors.com\" width=\"204\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozier slides nicely into the 2B hole on the Nats roster. Photo via mlbtraderumors.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, for those who were not convinced that the Nats would roll into 2019 with a\u00a0<strong>Wilmer Difo<\/strong>\/<strong>Howie Kendrick<\/strong> platoon at 2B &#8230; the Nats solved your problems just now, signing former all -star 2B\u00a0<strong>Brian Dozier<\/strong> to a one year deal worth $9M.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate reactions seem to think its an overpay.\u00a0 He did see his BA\u00a0 and his overall production plummet in 2018, going from All Star\/down-ballot MVP levels in 2015-16 to abhorrent in 2017.\u00a0 Even so, he still provided a full 1.0 bWAR in 2018 &#8230; which would significantly improve upon the combined -0.8 bWAR the Nats 2B provided the team last year.<\/p>\n<p>Another gamble from\u00a0<strong>Mike Rizzo<\/strong>, betting he can get a rebound year out of a former star.<\/p>\n<p>I like the gamble.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dozier&#8217;s signing is a one year deal; the old adage &#8220;there are no bad one year deals&#8221; comes to mind.\u00a0 If he&#8217;s a total bust, its just money.\u00a0 Yes perhaps money that could have been spent elsewhere (bullpen) but there&#8217;s more P depth in our minors than 2B dept right now.<\/li>\n<li>He doesn&#8217;t block\u00a0<strong>Carter Kieboom<\/strong> at all.<\/li>\n<li>Even if he hits .220 again, he hits for power, and would be an improvement over the black hole we had running last year at 2B.<\/li>\n<li>This mitigates any concerns you had about starting\u00a0Kendrick, or Difo for an entire season<\/li>\n<li>You can do worse than a Gold Glove-calibre former All Star defender in the #7 or #8 hole.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Add a couple more incremental wins to the ledger for this team.<\/p>\n<p>Roster implications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This puts them at 41 players; someone needs to drop.\u00a0 My guess is\u00a0<strong>Matt Reynolds<\/strong>, who is out of options and who was never going to make the 2019 team.<\/li>\n<li>This also likely pushes Difo back to AAA; he&#8217;s gone one option left and there&#8217;s no room on the active roster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I saw a couple of comments on the previous thread expressing some dissatisfaction over the move.\u00a0 \u00a0But feel free to discuss more.\u00a0 \u00a0The question I have for you is this: does this signing make the team better in 2019?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, for those who were not convinced that the Nats would roll into 2019 with a\u00a0Wilmer Difo\/Howie Kendrick platoon at 2B &#8230; the Nats solved your problems just now, signing former all -star 2B\u00a0Brian Dozier to a one year deal worth $9M. Immediate reactions seem to think its an overpay.\u00a0 He did see his BA\u00a0 [&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],"tags":[1942,3186,1940,3946,129,2650],"class_list":["post-15622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-brian-dozier","tag-carter-kieboom","tag-howie-kendrick","tag-matt-reynolds","tag-mike-rizzo","tag-wilmer-difo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622","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=15622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15626,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}