{"id":17878,"date":"2022-11-15T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17878"},"modified":"2022-11-15T21:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:04:31","slug":"post-rule-5-move-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17878","title":{"rendered":"Post rule-5 Move Reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RutledgeJackson-via-BA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RutledgeJackson-via-BA-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RutledgeJackson-via-BA-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RutledgeJackson-via-BA-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RutledgeJackson-via-BA-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RutledgeJackson-via-BA.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Rutledge amazingly gets added to the 40-man. Photo via BA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, in the wake of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17863\">big Rule-5 preview<\/a> &#8230; i didn&#8217;t think the team was going to do much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they did a lot.  Lets talk about the players added and the players removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Jake Alu<\/strong> inf<\/li><li><strong>Matt Cronin<\/strong> lhp<\/li><li><strong>Jeremy De La Rosa<\/strong> of<\/li><li><strong>Jose Ferrer<\/strong> lhp<\/li><li><strong>Jake Irvin<\/strong> rhp<\/li><li><strong>Jackson Rutledge<\/strong> rhp<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alu<\/strong>: I thought Alu was a decent candidate for his AAA success, but was thinking perhaps the team would let him slide as someone who was perhaps seen as &#8220;undersized utility guy.&#8221; Clearly they favor him more, and this gives us more evidence that Alu is going to compete straight up with <strong>Kieboom <\/strong>this coming spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cronin<\/strong>: So, in my preview I thought Cronin was the only &#8220;lock&#8221; to get added, based on his plug-n-play and his success in AAA.  So, no surprise here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>De La Rosa<\/strong>: surprised he got added.  The guy is only 20 and hit .197 in a few games in High-A.  Yes he raked in Low-A; read that sentence again: he&#8217;s 20.  Who is going to draft his guy and have him stay on a 25-man roster all year?  I&#8217;m not doubting the guy&#8217;s ability, i just can&#8217;t believe someone would waste a roster spot on a 20yr old OF like him.  If he was an arm?  Sure.  so we&#8217;re going to have at least one 40-man player in High-A next spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ferrer<\/strong>: I didn&#8217;t think he was really a viable candidate since he was in High-A most of the year.  Again, who would pick a guy who had only demonstrated he could succeed in A ball?  Nonetheless, he&#8217;s here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Irvin<\/strong>: Honestly, I didn&#8217;t think his AA numbers merited a spot.  But, perhaps the Nats are thinking about his pedigree instead of his performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rutledge<\/strong>: the most amazing selection of all.  Reminder: he had a .4.90 ERA in LOW-A this year.  This is entirely a protection based on protecting a big bonus and not the player on the field.  You can generally count on one hand the number of 40-man players in A ball in a given year &#8230; and our team is set to have two of them in 2023.  Amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, lets be honest.  I&#8217;m not &#8220;mad&#8221; about any of these additions.  I&#8217;m always up for protecting our players instead of letting them go.  I&#8217;m just kind of surprised that some of these guys got picked, knowing what we know about rule5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Biggest surprises not to get protected?  Millas of course, given our catching depth.  Nobody else really; the only other guy i mentioned as being in the realm ofpossible to get protected was Brill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets talk about who the team dumped to get here.  Two days ago we were at 39\/40 on the 40-man; now we have 6 new guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Seth Romero<\/strong> mercifully cut after yet another disgression: we&#8217;ll have a separate post-mortem post.<\/li><li><strong>Tommy Romero <\/strong>dfa&#8217;d: no surprise here; he was perhaps 3rd or 4th on my list of &#8220;next guy to get the DFA.&#8221;<\/li><li><strong>Jackson Tetreault<\/strong>: cut not because he merited it .. but because he&#8217;s hurt and thus passed easily through waivers.  More importantly (and this is the exact same situation with Lee) &#8230; Tetreault was eligible to be outrighted against his will once he passed through waivers.  So this (and Lee) were strategic outrights, knowing they&#8217;d be guaranteed to still be with the org.  Well done .. and another example of how the roster rules continually screw pre-arb players in this sport.<\/li><li><strong>Evan Lee: <\/strong>See Tetreault; Lee has a left flexor strain, a huge red flag for teams in the modern Tommy John happy era.<\/li><li><strong>Yadiel Hernandez: <\/strong>The one that really shocked me.  I mean, i had him possibly penciled in as the starting LF next season based on his bat.  But then again, maybe this was a calculated gamble by the team to DFA a player who they could outright and control, as with Tetreault and Lee.  The cuban sticks with the team but is bound for AAA once again, a situation that has to be a huge bummer for him.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Something tells me we&#8217;ll be seeing Tetreault, Lee, and Hernandez again.  But not for a while.  At least we retain them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More interesting is why the team bothered to keep rif-raf on the 40-man like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fox, who went 2-28 in the majors and a middling .241 in the minors<\/li><li>Palacios, who posted a 46 OPS+ in a completely replaceable position.<\/li><li>Weems, who posted a 5.22 ERA in the bullpen as a RHP middle reliever.<\/li><li>Garrett, who gave up 7 runs in 9 innings<\/li><li>Antuna, who continues to have 9 lives, hitting .215 in High-A.  He has one option remaining until finally this arrogant decision can be put behind us when, after he again flirts with the Mendoza line in the minors in 2023, he&#8217;ll be forced to be DFA&#8217;d thanks to the exhausting of waivers in the spring of 2024.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More moves have to be coming, including some non-tenders (a separate post on that forth coming as well), because the team has to get some reinforcements this off-season besides 20yr olds who hit .190 in high-A (ahem, De La Rosa).  Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in the wake of my big Rule-5 preview &#8230; i didn&#8217;t think the team was going to do much. But they did a lot. Lets talk about the players added and the players removed. 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