{"id":182,"date":"2010-08-30T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:31:39","slug":"the-race-for-the-2011-draft-pick-83010-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"The race for the 2011 Draft pick; 8\/30\/10 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, as I&#8217;d like to call it, the <strong>Anthony Rendon<\/strong> 2011 sweepstakes (click here for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riceowls.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/stats\/2009-2010\/teamcume.html\">2010 stats <\/a>when he won the NCAA player of the year).<\/p>\n<p>2011 draft orderUpdated 8\/30\/10<\/p>\n<p>1: Pittsburgh\u00a0\u00a0 43-87\u00a0\u00a0 .331 8\/30 a weekend sweep puts them 5 games &#8220;ahead&#8221; in the draft positioning.<br \/>\n2: Baltimore\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 48-83\u00a0\u00a0 .366<br \/>\n3. Seattle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 51-79\u00a0\u00a0 .392<br \/>\n4. Arizona\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 52-79\u00a0\u00a0 .397 8\/29 falls into 4th place w\/ 2-game win streak<br \/>\n5. Cleveland\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 53-77\u00a0\u00a0 .408<br \/>\n6. Chi Cubs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 55-76\u00a0\u00a0 .420<br \/>\n(6a will go to Arizona for failing to sign Barret Loux)<br \/>\n7. Kansas City\u00a0 55-75\u00a0\u00a0 .423 8\/29 jumps from 8th to 6th w\/ 2 game losing streak<br \/>\n8. Washington\u00a0\u00a0 56-75\u00a0\u00a0 .427 8\/30: falls to 8th with 3 wins in 4 versus StL<br \/>\n9. Houston\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 59-71\u00a0\u00a0 .454<br \/>\n(9a will go to San Diego for failing to sign Karsten Whitson)<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s taking 3 of 4 versus the Cardinals has vaulted them from a tie for 6th into sole possession of 8th place.\u00a0 Washington is turning into a victim of the late-season successes of there here-to-fore relatively awful starters <strong>Marquis <\/strong>and <strong>Lannan<\/strong>.\u00a0 In Lannan&#8217;s last 5 starts he&#8217;s 4-1 with a 3.19 era and 1.129 whip.\u00a0 In Marquis&#8217;s last two starts he&#8217;s 0-2 with a 1.46 era and 1.216 whip (unlucky loser both times really).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, as I&#8217;d like to call it, the Anthony Rendon 2011 sweepstakes (click here for his 2010 stats when he won the NCAA player of the year). 2011 draft orderUpdated 8\/30\/10 1: Pittsburgh\u00a0\u00a0 43-87\u00a0\u00a0 .331 8\/30 a weekend sweep puts them 5 games &#8220;ahead&#8221; in the draft positioning. 2: Baltimore\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 48-83\u00a0\u00a0 .366 3. Seattle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 51-79\u00a0\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":[9],"tags":[185,1136,42,39,1137,1016],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-draft","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-barret-loux","tag-jason-marquis","tag-john-lannan","tag-karsten-whitson","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}