{"id":207,"date":"2010-09-02T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:24:27","slug":"olsen-possibly-closes-his-nats-career-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Olsen (possibly) closes his Nats Career last night&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/nationalsjournal\/2010\/09\/hello_danny_espinosa_goodbye_s.html\">Adam Kilgore<\/a> beat me to the punch on this post earlier today, but I&#8217;ll still post my sentiments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Olsen<\/strong> put in yet another forgettable performance last night (<a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2010_09_01_wasmlb_flomlb_1&amp;mode=wrap\">gamer\/box<\/a>), lasting only 5 outs while giving up NINE earned runs in an ugly outing.\u00a0 His era rose from 4.91 to 5.88, his whip rose from 1.43 to 1.53 and his ERA+ dropped from an already mediocre 84 to 70.\u00a0 He drops to 3-8 on the season and the team is 5-10 in his starts.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Olsen is that his &#8220;highs&#8221; are not balancing out the lows.\u00a0\u00a0 In 15 starts he&#8217;s pitched into the 7th inning twice (including one gem against Atlanta where he gave up 2 hits in 7 1\/3 inning) but he&#8217;s had &#8220;meltdown&#8221; games no less than five times.\u00a0 (&#8220;meltdown&#8221; being defined as a game where the pitcher gives up at least as many runs as innings pitched).<\/p>\n<p>Olsen arrived to the team with a history and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/03\/AR2009030303647_pf.html\">less-than-stellar fitness routine<\/a> (he was a half-a-pack a day smoker).\u00a0 We havn&#8217;t heard a single peep about any attitude or smoking issues this year and I was impressed that he accepted last year&#8217;s non-tender and subsequently signed on for less than what he would have earned in arbitration to start the\u00a0 season.\u00a0 I&#8217;m less impressed with the results for this team.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully for Olsen, he won&#8217;t earn an outright release in the next few weeks, probably just getting sent to the bullpen or just shelved as <strong>Yunesky Maya<\/strong> gets called up to naturally make the 9\/7 start on a normal 4 days rest.\u00a0 But, with an expected crowded race for next year&#8217;s rotation, he&#8217;s quickly earning himself a non-tender after the season is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Adam Kilgore beat me to the punch on this post earlier today, but I&#8217;ll still post my sentiments. Scott Olsen put in yet another forgettable performance last night (gamer\/box), lasting only 5 outs while giving up NINE earned runs in an ugly outing.\u00a0 His era rose from 4.91 to 5.88, his whip rose from [&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],"tags":[111,819,883],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-adam-kilgore","tag-scott-olsen","tag-yunesky-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}