{"id":189,"date":"2010-08-30T13:35:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:32:26","slug":"91-nats-callups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"9\/1 Nats Callups?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who do you think the Nats call up 9\/1?\u00a0 We&#8217;re at <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0Ah73kg8XyqHodE5pdWhwUjhweHJWbVdjbFdtMEhDUkE&amp;hl=en#gid=1\">40\/40<\/a> right now on the 40-man roster, but could move <strong>Willingham<\/strong> and <strong>Strasburg<\/strong> to the 60-day DL to make room for a couple more people.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I think happens:<\/p>\n<p>SPs: <strong>Maya<\/strong> gets the callup, perhaps not on 9\/1 but soon enough to start getting some starts.<\/p>\n<p>RPs: <strong>Balester<\/strong> and <strong>Severino<\/strong> get callbacks.\u00a0 No 40-man moves required, gives a couple more arms to help out in a tired bullpen<\/p>\n<p>C: <strong>Ramos<\/strong> gets called back up to spell <strong>Nieves <\/strong>here and there and get some more work at the MLB level.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see an obvious candidate to add to the 40-man to bring up.\u00a0 There is talk of <strong>Espinosa<\/strong> coming up but he&#8217;s a better candidate to go to the AFL and spend more time in AAA learning how to become <strong>Desmond<\/strong>&#8216;s double play combination.\u00a0 DC-local favorite <strong>Josh Wilkie<\/strong> has had a great year as a AAA reliever but there might not be enough work for him in a 9 or 10-man bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who do you think the Nats call up 9\/1?\u00a0 We&#8217;re at 40\/40 right now on the 40-man roster, but could move Willingham and Strasburg to the 60-day DL to make room for a couple more people.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I think happens: SPs: Maya gets the callup, perhaps not on 9\/1 but soon enough to start [&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":[141,101,135,114,102,580,38,990,147,883],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-atahualpa-severino","tag-collin-balester","tag-danny-espinosa","tag-ian-desmond","tag-josh-wilkie","tag-josh-willingham","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-wil-nieves","tag-wilson-ramos","tag-yunesky-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}