{"id":16500,"date":"2020-02-13T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16500"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:52:10","slug":"spring-training-2020-nri-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16500","title":{"rendered":"Spring Training 2020 NRI Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16503\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GuerraJavy-via-wiki.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16503\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GuerraJavy-via-wiki-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nationals at Orioles 7\/16\/19\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GuerraJavy-via-wiki-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GuerraJavy-via-wiki-768x869.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GuerraJavy-via-wiki-905x1024.jpg 905w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GuerraJavy-via-wiki.jpg 1397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nationals at Orioles 7\/16\/19<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Nationals, on the first day of spring training, announced their list of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/nationals-pastime\/2020\/02\/nats-invite-22-non-roster-players-to-big-league-camp.html\">Non-Roster Invitees\u00a0(NRIs) for 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our 6th year running NRI analysis.\u00a0 With this post, I&#8217;ve also got the Big Board officially updated to account for all 22 guys.\u00a0 These 22 signings confirmed at least 6 new MLFA signings unknown until today (Freeman, Ward, Snyder, Wilson, Shuck and Self), so those details are on the page too.<\/p>\n<p>Now, before you say &#8220;who cares&#8221; here&#8217;s some stats.\u00a0 In the last five seasons (through 2019):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 NRIs made the 25-man roster straight out of Spring Training (and Guthrie\u00a0technically made it 6 since he got called up a few days later and was always intended to be the 5th starter in 2017).\u00a0 Basically every year an NRI has made the roster for 5 seasons running.<\/li>\n<li>21 NRIs eventually played for the MLB team at some point that same season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So its likely that we&#8217;re going to see a lot of these NRIs at some point in the future.\u00a0 Like, on average at least 4-5 of these NRIs are going to play for this team in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/nationals-pastime\/2020\/02\/nats-invite-22-non-roster-players-to-big-league-camp.html\">list of 22 NRI&#8217;s<\/a> for 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"5d94\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">RH Starters: <strong>Wil Crowe, Paolo Espino<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">RH Relievers;\u00a0<strong>Dakota Bacus, Bryan Bonnell,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Javy Guerra, Jhonatan German, David Hernandez, Kevin Quackenbush, Derek Self<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"2c14\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">LH Starters: none<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">LH Relievers:\u00a0<strong>Fernando Abad, Sam Freeman<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"de3d\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Catchers:\u00a0<strong>Wellington Castro, Taylor Gushue, Jakson Reetz<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"74c7\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Infielders:\u00a0<strong>Luis Garcia,\u00a0Brandon Snyder<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<strong>Drew Ward<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jacob Wilson<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"d067\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Outfielders:\u00a0<strong>Emilio Bonifacio, Yadiel Hernandez, JB Shuck, Mac Williamson<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(interestingly, there is at least one off-season MLFA signing that I had listed as being given an NRI;\u00a0<strong>Tyler Eppler<\/strong>, who is not listed here.)<\/p>\n<p>So lets squint and make some predictions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Do any of these guys stand a chance at making the Opening day roster<\/strong>?\u00a0 Honestly, I don&#8217;t see it this year.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s an injury sure, but right now the 26-man opening day roster seems pretty set.\u00a0 Even at the edges of the bullpen and bench, it doesn&#8217;t seem like we have a ton of competition.\n<ol>\n<li>Squinting at the bullpen, it seems like the last two spots will be going two guys (<strong>Roenis Elias<\/strong> and <strong>Austin Voth<\/strong>) who don&#8217;t seem likely to get sent to AAA (for reliability and options).\u00a0 Elias is the only other lefty besides <strong>Doolittle, <\/strong>so maybe Abad\/Freeman have a shot?\u00a0 Guerra is a franchise favorite who probably gets called up at some point after what he did for the team last year.<\/li>\n<li>The edge of the Bench basically is\u00a0<strong>Eric Thames, Ryan Zimmerman\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Wilmer Difo<\/strong>: if someone beats out Difo they&#8217;re going to have to be able to play a serviceable short-stop; not sure who of the NRI infielders fits that bill.\u00a0 Certainly not Snyder, Ward or Wilson, all of whom are corner guys.\u00a0 And if you want to argue with a straight face that 19-yr old\u00a0<strong>Luis Garcia<\/strong> is breaking camp with the team &#8230; well i&#8217;m just not going to consider you as someone who understands how modern baseball works.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do any of these guys project to feature at all in 2020<\/strong>?\u00a0 At all?\u00a0 Yeah definitely: I can see a couple of the relievers getting called up, especially since a number of them have MLB experience.\u00a0 I could see Crowe getting the call in case we get shredded with injuries in the rotation.\u00a0 I could see a flexible guy with past ties to the club like Bonifacio getting called up.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who among these guys project to eventually get on the 40-man<\/strong>?\u00a0 past the above, Garcia obviously, but its hard to make an argument for too many others.\u00a0 There&#8217;s really only like one or two &#8220;prospects&#8221; here that are called up for the experience; nearly the entire list are MLFAs that will be providing Fresno depth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>NRI Details by year, in case you were wondering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Summary of NRIs for 2020: 22 total<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three (3) made the 30-man roster out of Spring training:\u00a0<strong>Javy Guerra,\u00a0Sam Freeman,\u00a0Emilio Bonifacio<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>4 more eventually got added and called-up: tbd by end of 2020 season (<strong>Wil Crowe, Dakota Bacus, Luis Garcia, Yadiel Hernandez<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>0 more since been added to 40-man post 2020-season: tbd before 2021 season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15666\">Summary of NRIs for 2019<\/a>: 18 total<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One (1)\u00a0made the 25-man roster out of spring:\u00a0<strong>Jake Noll<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Three (3) more eventually got added and called up:\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Aaron Barrett,\u00a0Tres Barrera,\u00a0Carter Kieboom<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Zero (0) others have since been added to 40-man (as of 2\/6\/20).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15657\">Summary of NRIs from ST 2018<\/a>: 21 NRIs total:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One (1)\u00a0made the 25-man roster out of spring:\u00a0<strong>Miguel Montero<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Four (4) eventually got added and called up:\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Tim Collins, Moises Sierra, Jimmy Cordero, Spencer Kieboom.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Special Mention to\u00a0<strong>Edwin Jackson<\/strong>, who opted out of Washington then excelled for Oakland later in 2018).<\/li>\n<li>Zero (0) others have since been added to 40-man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13409\">Summary of NRIs from ST 2017<\/a>: 24 NRIs total:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zero (0)\u00a0made the 25-man roster out of spring (though technically one kinda was; see next).<\/li>\n<li>Five (5) eventually got added and called up (<strong>Jeremy\u00a0Guthrie, Matt Albers, Grant Green,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Jacob Turner<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Andrew\u00a0Stevenson<\/strong>): Guthrie was the 5th starter, stashed in XST for a few days before his ill-fated debut.<\/li>\n<li>Five (5) have since been added to 40-man (<strong>Erick Fedde, Taylor Hill, Kyle McGowin, Wander Suero, Tim Collins)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=11953\">Summary of NRIs from ST 2016<\/a>: 20 NRIs total (plus perhaps a couple more that got signed late):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two (2) made the 25-man roster: (<strong>Chris Heisey\u00a0<\/strong>and as noted in the comments, thanks for the correction,\u00a0<strong>Matt Belisle<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>Two (2) eventually got added and called up (<strong>Lucas Giolito, Sean Burnett<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Two (2) have since been added to 40-man (<strong>Matt Skole, Austin Voth<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10264\">Summary of NRIs from ST 2015<\/a>: 20 NRIs total:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two (2) made the 25-man roster out of spring (<strong>Dan Uggla<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Clint Robinson<\/strong>).\u00a0 Adding\u00a0<strong>Reed Johnson<\/strong> as a late-spring signee who made the team after his release from Miami (H\/T Sao)<\/li>\n<li>Two (2) others eventually got added and called up (<strong>Rafael Martin<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Emmanuel Burriss<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Two (2) others were young catchers since added to the 40-man (<strong>Spencer Kieboom, Pedro Severino<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I believe the above analysis is correct; feel free to comment if i&#8217;ve missed someone.\u00a0 this is a bit tougher to keep track of b\/c the team often signs MLFAs mid-spring then technically gives them NRIs &#8230; especially for Vets, and I may miss some from the original announcements).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nationals, on the first day of spring training, announced their list of\u00a0Non-Roster Invitees\u00a0(NRIs) for 2020. Here&#8217;s our 6th year running NRI analysis.\u00a0 With this post, I&#8217;ve also got the Big Board officially updated to account for all 22 guys.\u00a0 These 22 signings confirmed at least 6 new MLFA signings unknown until today (Freeman, Ward, [&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":[1815,1342,4247,2005,2421,938,1813,825,4460,1503,2466,4297,4457,3619,4454,3051,4458,2658,2583,36,4455,1347,3683,4459,4456,3588,2650,3730],"class_list":["post-16500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-austin-voth","tag-brandon-snyder","tag-bryan-bonnell","tag-dakota-bacus","tag-david-hernandez","tag-derek-self","tag-drew-ward","tag-emilio-bonifacio","tag-eric-thames","tag-fernando-abad","tag-jakson-reetz","tag-javy-guerra","tag-jb-shuck","tag-jhonatan-german","tag-kevin-quackenbush","tag-luis-garcia","tag-mac-williamson","tag-paolo-espino","tag-roenis-elias","tag-ryan-zimmerman","tag-sam-freeman","tag-sean-doolittle","tag-taylor-gushue","tag-tyler-eppler","tag-wellington-castro","tag-wil-crowe","tag-wilmer-difo","tag-yadiel-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16500","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=16500"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16927,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16500\/revisions\/16927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}