{"id":16415,"date":"2019-12-16T21:47:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T02:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16415"},"modified":"2020-03-10T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T15:06:19","slug":"fedde-and-read-have-a-4th-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16415","title":{"rendered":"Fedde and Read have a 4th option!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13190\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FeddeErick-via-minorleagueball.com_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13190\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13190\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FeddeErick-via-minorleagueball.com_-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Big news for Fedde and 2020. Photo via minorleagueball.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FeddeErick-via-minorleagueball.com_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FeddeErick-via-minorleagueball.com_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FeddeErick-via-minorleagueball.com_-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FeddeErick-via-minorleagueball.com_.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big news for Fedde and 2020. Photo via minorleagueball.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A quick break from the\u00a0<strong>Josh Donaldson<\/strong> discussions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Caught this little nugget in\u00a0<strong>Mark Zuckerman<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/nationals-pastime\/2019\/12\/monday-morning-nats-qa-3.html\">monday Q&amp;A today<\/a>: turns out that both\u00a0<strong>Erick Fedde<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Raudy Read<\/strong> both got awarded 4th options!<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Zuckerman:\u00a0 <em>&#8220;&#8230;. Fedde, who it turns out has a rare fourth option year because he used up his standard three options before completing his fifth professional season. (I only realized that last week when a club official corrected me after I wrote all three pitchers were out of options. All the online sites that track these things had that wrong. Raudy Read also falls into the same category, FWIW.)&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, this is pretty darn important.\u00a0 If Fedde in particular can be optioned, then the Nats conondrum of options-less arms Fedde,\u00a0<strong>Joe Ross<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Austin Voth<\/strong> now has a simple answer.\u00a0 One of Ross or Voth is the 5th starter, the other is the 26th man on the roster, and Fedde is in AAA.\u00a0 Voila!<\/p>\n<p>Plus now we have a simple answer for Read.\u00a0 He and Fedde can be the opening day battery in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Now basically the team has just one real options issue player:\u00a0<strong>Adrian Sanchez<\/strong>\u00a0 Or perhaps\u00a0<strong>Wilmer Difo<\/strong>; one of these two seems set to be the backup infielder, the other seems set to get DFA&#8217;d at the end of spring training.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated the Big Board to this extent (oh yeah, by the way, I&#8217;m helping\u00a0<strong>Luke Erickson<\/strong> now maintain the big board and draft tracker xls&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Big Board: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/186nm-v5F-zTCoR2Be7TFYM3e2cZ-gYi2WVqJLEkHdmc\/edit?hl=en#gid=1071234630<\/p>\n<p>Draft Tracker:\u00a0https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1Qd5DS9GlmkQOEh_zGhOvlhHK0EegqY1uJB4mLGmRBaY\/edit#gid=0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick break from the\u00a0Josh Donaldson discussions&#8230; Caught this little nugget in\u00a0Mark Zuckerman&#8216;s monday Q&amp;A today: turns out that both\u00a0Erick Fedde and\u00a0Raudy Read both got awarded 4th options! Quoting Zuckerman:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;. Fedde, who it turns out has a rare fourth option year because he used up his standard three options before completing his fifth professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4324],"tags":[3684,1815,2425,2691,2046,4304,301,2760,2650],"class_list":["post-16415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","category-prospects","tag-adrian-sanchez","tag-austin-voth","tag-erick-fedde","tag-joe-ross","tag-josh-donaldson","tag-luck-erickson","tag-mark-zuckerman","tag-raudy-read","tag-wilmer-difo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415","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=16415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16418,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions\/16418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}