{"id":16703,"date":"2020-08-22T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16703"},"modified":"2020-08-22T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:19:25","slug":"strasburg-done-for-season-is-this-the-dagger-that-ends-the-nats-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16703","title":{"rendered":"Strasburg done for season; is this the dagger that ends the Nats in 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14076\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crowewill-via-sportstalk.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14076\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14076\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crowewill-via-sportstalk-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Will Crowe gets the call.   Photo via SportsTalk\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crowewill-via-sportstalk-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crowewill-via-sportstalk.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Crowe gets the call. Photo via SportsTalk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Word today that\u00a0<strong>Strasburg<\/strong> is having surgery on his wrist and is heading to 60-day DL, effectively ending his season.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Wil Crowe<\/strong> becomes the latest Nats top-10 prospect (behind\u00a0<strong>Kieboom, Garcia, Romero\u00a0<\/strong>) to get called up this season and attempt to keep the team afloat.\u00a0 By most rankings, the Nats current #1, #2, and #4 prospects are now active (plus wherever you think Romero ranks, anywhere between 10 and 14 on most boards).\u00a0 Suddenly its looking like a youth movement in Washington.\u00a0 (side note: our farm system is going to be dead last next year if all these guys exhaust rookie eligiblity).<\/p>\n<p>Is Strasburg&#8217;s injury unsurpassable for this team?\u00a0 Eh, probably not; he was already hurt but in his absence the team is sputtering along playing about .400 ball.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in the 2020 crazy season, .400 ball only puts them like a game out of the wild card.\u00a0 Eight teams out of the NL make it, meaning that ST Louis (currently sitting at 7-8) is in playoff position.\u00a0 So the Nats at 9-13 are &#8230; 1.5 games back?\u00a0 My math is a little fuzzy on &#8220;games back&#8221; logic right now given differing numbers of games played.\u00a0 So a weekend sweep suddenly rockets the team back into play off position.<\/p>\n<p>The larger question is this: The Nats are losing piece after piece, and I wonder how long they conintue to hold on.\u00a0 Both lefty relievers are done, their #2 starter done, their FA second baseman signing done.\u00a0 \u00a0They were already down a 5th starter thanks to\u00a0<strong>Joe Ross<\/strong>&#8216; opt out.\u00a0 I mean, i&#8217;m glad to see all these prospets coming up; its great to be able to actually see these guys play.\u00a0 But man, can this team hold on?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for the Nats &#8230; the &#8220;class&#8221; of the division (Atlanta) is just 4 games ahead, and themselves seem to be falling apart too.\u00a0 Maybe its a race of attrition until October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word today that\u00a0Strasburg is having surgery on his wrist and is heading to 60-day DL, effectively ending his season.\u00a0\u00a0Wil Crowe becomes the latest Nats top-10 prospect (behind\u00a0Kieboom, Garcia, Romero\u00a0) to get called up this season and attempt to keep the team afloat.\u00a0 By most rankings, the Nats current #1, #2, and #4 prospects are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703","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=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16705,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions\/16705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}