{"id":2696,"date":"2011-10-09T11:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T16:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:53:30","slug":"nats-off-season-news-items-wrap-up-10911-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"Nats Off-season News Items Wrap-up 10\/9\/11 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With no more rotation reviews, I thought I&#8217;d post periodic news items picked up here and there related to the team.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll focus mostly on the pitchers in the system but will note other newsworthy items.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our initial announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=t_ros&amp;sid=l119&amp;y=2010&amp;cid=544\">Arizona Fall League (AFL) participants<\/a>, in addition to <strong>Bryce Harper<\/strong>, include arms <strong>Sammy Solis<\/strong>, <strong>Pat Lehman<\/strong>, <strong>Rafael Martin<\/strong>.\u00a0 Solis is clearly a valued arm, but the selection of Lehman and Martin is interesting for the future of these guys.<\/li>\n<li>A number of important minor league arms are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/post\/anthony-rendon-matt-purke-highlight-instructional-league-roster\/2011\/09\/09\/gIQAKEhYFK_blog.html\">Instructional League<\/a> as we speak, a month long &#8220;league&#8221; that gives minor leagues a bit more time to play after the regular season ends.\u00a0 In addition to high-end 2011 draftees <strong>Purke<\/strong>, <strong>Meyer<\/strong>, and <strong>Turnbull<\/strong>, the likes of <strong>AJ Cole<\/strong>, <strong>Robbie Ray<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Demny<\/strong>, and <strong>Jack McGeary<\/strong> are all down in Viera getting a bit more work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew Purke<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/post\/anthony-rendons-status-and-more-nationals-instructional-league-notes\/2011\/10\/03\/gIQATyszHL_blog.html?wprss=nationals-journal\">reportedly is throwing well<\/a> in camp, though no mention made of his MPH.\u00a0 News is that he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/byron_kerr\/2011\/10\/purke-to-join-afl-soon-rendon-to-stay-at-instructional%20league.html\">heading to the AFL<\/a> sooner than later, so we&#8217;ll be able to get some game-reports from him soon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Dierkes<\/strong> from mlb trade rumors posted the Nats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2011\/10\/arbitration-eligibles-washington-nationals.html\">Arbitration Eligible review<\/a>, and we really don&#8217;t have that many tough decisions.\u00a0 The team doesn&#8217;t have to make these decisions til (I believe) December 1st, so we&#8217;ll save a post til we get closer to the date.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Byron Kerr<\/strong> did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/byron_kerr\/2011\/10\/former-gw-product-lehman-ready-to-showcase-stuff-in-arizona.html\">nice profile of Pat Lehman<\/a> here, a local (GWU) product now playing in the prestigious AFL league (where 60% of players eventually make the majors).\u00a0 Lehman had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2367\">great season<\/a>, ending up as the AA closer, and he may continue his rise in 2012.\u00a0 I project him being the closer in AA to start, with an eye towards a mid-season promotion to AAA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sammy Solis<\/strong>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalsprospects.com\/2011\/10\/afl-update-october-7-2011\/\">first AFL start<\/a> was just soso; 3ip, 1r 2hits and 3walks.\u00a0 Clearly he didn&#8217;t have his normal control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no more rotation reviews, I thought I&#8217;d post periodic news items picked up here and there related to the team.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll focus mostly on the pitchers in the system but will note other newsworthy items. Without further ado: Our initial announced Arizona Fall League (AFL) participants, in addition to Bryce Harper, include arms Sammy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,4,534],"tags":[17,262,164,265,206,951,166,63,57,69,18,19,264],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball","category-mlbpitching","category-minorspitching","category-weekly-news","tag-aj-cole","tag-alex-meyer","tag-bryce-harper","tag-byron-kerr","tag-jack-mcgeary","tag-kylin-turnbull","tag-matthew-purke","tag-pat-lehman","tag-paul-demny","tag-rafael-martin","tag-robbie-ray","tag-sammy-solis","tag-tim-dierkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}