{"id":2870,"date":"2011-11-04T10:10:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2013-01-13T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:06:57","slug":"nats-off-season-news-items-wrap-up-11411-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Nats Off-season News Items Wrap-up 11\/4\/11 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2943\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wangCheinming_copyright-the-Washington-Nationals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2943\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2943\" title=\"wangCheinming_copyright the Washington Nationals\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wangCheinming_copyright-the-Washington-Nationals-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wangCheinming_copyright-the-Washington-Nationals-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wangCheinming_copyright-the-Washington-Nationals.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wang re-ups for his 3rd year in a Nats uniform.  Photo from Washington Nationals photo day.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a weekly wrap up of Nats-related news items, with my thoughts as appropriate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MLBtraderumor&#8217;s <strong>Tim Dierkes<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2011\/10\/price-porcello-among-27-to-reach-super-two-status.html\">announced<\/a> that the cutoff for this year&#8217;s &#8220;Super-2&#8221; status is 2 years, 146 days.\u00a0 This cutoff means that two (and possibly three) Nats players made the cut and will be in line for a 4th arbitration season.\u00a0 <strong>Jordan Zimmermann<\/strong> made it by 8 days, <strong>Tyler Clippard<\/strong> by 2 days (!), and <strong>Roger Bernadina<\/strong> (at least according to <strong>Amanda Comak<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/nationals-watch\/2011\/oct\/27\/zimmermann-clippard-bernadina-all-expected-reach-s\/\">calculations<\/a>; he&#8217;s missing from Dierkes&#8217; list).\u00a0 In Bernadina&#8217;s case, it may not matter, as he&#8217;s out of options for 2012, isn&#8217;t likely to make the roster anyway and seems a certainty for a non-tender.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll save salary speculation for a future post as we get closer to the arbitration dates.\u00a0 11\/1 update: Dierkes responded to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2011\/11\/projected-arbitration-salaries.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MlbTradeRumors+%28MLB+Trade+Rumors%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">comment in this blog posting<\/a> and said that his personal calculations determined that Bernadina missed the cutoff.<\/li>\n<li>Tim Dierkes is a busy man; he has a series of FA analysis by position and posted his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2011\/10\/free-agent-and-trade-market-for-center-fielders.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MlbTradeRumors+%28MLB+Trade+Rumors%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Center Field analysis<\/a> over the weekend.\u00a0 Considering that the Nats have been looking for a quality center fielder essentially since moving to Washington, the analysis is a good read.\u00a0 The news isn&#8217;t good; Dierkes only projects ONE viable CF FA candidate: <strong>Coco Crisp<\/strong> (quotes later in the week though confirm that Crisp wants to stay on the west coast, making him a less likely candidate).\u00a0 He mentions <strong>Grady Sizemore<\/strong> as being worth a flier but no guarantee to be healthy.\u00a0 There&#8217;s some &#8220;thinking outside the box&#8221; candidates, guys who are older and who could hold on to CF for another year, but if the Nats were to do that we might as well either go with <strong>Jayson Werth<\/strong> in center or re-sign Ankiel.\u00a0 Trade potential <strong>BJ Upton<\/strong> is still there, and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s still available for the right price.\u00a0 Perhaps the Nats could package a bunch of prospects for both Upton and Shields.\u00a0 One other interesting name to consider: <strong>Melky Cabrera<\/strong>.\u00a0 Nice season, nearly a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cabreme01.shtml\">20\/20 guy<\/a>.\u00a0 Getting a bit expensive for KC&#8230; maybe we could flip them some pitching surplus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sammy Solis<\/strong> has marginally improved as the AFL has gone forward, putting in a 4ip, 1run performance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=l119&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=519301\">Oct 29th<\/a>.\u00a0 Meanwhile, what is going on with <strong>Matthew Purke<\/strong>?\u00a0 In three appearances through 10\/29 he&#8217;s given up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=l119&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=545357\">11 runs on 10 hits<\/a> in 3 1\/3 innings.\u00a0 Not good.\u00a0 We may have to just shield our eyes until spring training.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill Ladson<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20111025&amp;content_id=25790524&amp;vkey=news_was&amp;c_id=was&amp;partnerId=rss_was\">reported on a conversation<\/a> he had with <strong>Mike Rizzo<\/strong> about the Nats off-season plans, and the takeaway seems to be that the team &#8220;has made no promises&#8221; to <strong>Adam LaRoche<\/strong> about playing time in 2012.\u00a0 I just have a hard time believing that the team plans on just ignoring 1\/8th of their payroll (LaRoche&#8217;s $8M salary on last year&#8217;s $68M payroll) by signing a replacement.\u00a0 Rizzo pursued and signed LaRoche for a reason; good defense and adequate bat.\u00a0 At least, that&#8217;s the idea.\u00a0 Personally I have a hard time believing that <strong>Albert Pujols<\/strong> is leaving St. Louis, and I&#8217;ll bet that Fielder stays in the NL central as well (perhaps replacing <strong>Carlos Pena<\/strong> in Chicago as <strong>Theo Epstein<\/strong>&#8216;s first big signing).<\/li>\n<li>ESPN&#8217;s <strong>Buster Olney<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/mlb\/blog\/_\/name\/olney_buster\/id\/7169958\/after-missing-ring-second-year-rangers-begin-all-mlb\">believes the Nats<\/a> will look at <strong>Grady Sizemore<\/strong>, recently having his 2012 option declined by the Indians, as a center field option.\u00a0 I suppose Sizemore is no more of a risk than it would be to resign <strong>Rick Ankiel<\/strong>, or to experiment with Werth in center and a player to be named (<strong>Laynce Nix<\/strong>?) in right.\u00a0 It would be ironic to see Sizemore come back to the team that drafted and developed him, only to trade him in an incredibly damaging deal for a few months rental of <strong>Bartolo Colon<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Taken from a link in the previous Olney posting, the &#8220;Field of Dreams&#8221; property in Iowa used to make the movie of the same name is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/30\/sports\/baseball\/field-of-dreams-setting-tourist-magnet-in-iowa-is-to-be-sold.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=2&amp;ref=sports\">being sold<\/a>.\u00a0 Visitors come by the thousands even to this day to see the makeshift field built into a century-old farmland.\u00a0 What I find neat is the apparent unassuming nature of the owners and the fact they&#8217;ve never really attempted to commercialize the property.\u00a0 In that respect, it reminds me of Cooperstown, which I visited for the first time this past summer (blog post in the works with pictures) and found to be amazingly quant and un-tarnished by the type of tourist-driven revenue generators you find at other places in this country.<\/li>\n<li>A post courtesy of <strong>Rob Neyer<\/strong>&#8216;s blog about the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlyagame.wbur.org\/2011\/10\/29\/astros-switch\">seemingly imminent move<\/a> of the Astros to the AL West points out a salient points the Houston fan base would have to put up with; more 9:05pm local starts as the team travels to play new rivals on the West coast.\u00a0 This likely will badly affect their TV ratings.\u00a0 Will the Astros take to having new divisional rivals in the Angels, A&#8217;s and Mariners well?\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t seem to have really hurt the Rangers, who have the same issue.\u00a0 One has to think an intra-state, intra-divisional rivalry with the Rangers would be fantastic for both teams though.\u00a0 Imagine 18 games and state bragging rights at stake for a state that takes its bragging rights (in all matters, both sports and non) very seriously.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/post\/eight-nationals-become-free-agents-as-offseason-begins\/2011\/10\/30\/gIQAFyfKWM_blog.html?wprss=nationals-journal\">All 8 of our free agents filed<\/a> as soon as the FA filing period opened, as reported by Adam Kilgore.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a post coming up on thoughts on the 8 free agents and which I think we should look at resigning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jon Heyman<\/strong>&#8216;s first <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/writers\/jon_heyman\/10\/31\/top.10.winter.questions\/index.html?eref=writers\">off-season column<\/a> addresses some of the main &#8220;questions&#8221; facing baseball this off-season and he includes answering some of the major FA rumors.\u00a0 He lists the Nats as favorites for both <strong>Prince Fielder<\/strong> and <strong>CJ Wilson<\/strong>.\u00a0 Signing both would instantly add $30M of payroll to a team that already projects at somewhere in the $65M already basically allocated (we owe $45M in guaranteed contracts on the books now, probably somewhere in the range of $13M to clear our arbitration cases, and the rest being minimum salaries to 40-man guys).\u00a0 Are the Lerners ready to step up and pay this kind of money?<\/li>\n<li>Heyman&#8217;s article also notes that the last remaining issue in the MLB contract negotiations relates to Draft Slotting.\u00a0 <strong>Bud Selig<\/strong> has been pushing hard for this, as he feels smaller market teams get screwed by agents who know bigger market teams will pay the money for their guys.\u00a0 Meanwhile the league is apparently read to ditch free agent compensation picks as a bargaining chip.\u00a0 Certainly the union has to like this (especially for relievers, who get labeled type-A and suddenly can&#8217;t find work).<\/li>\n<li>Dodger Fan&#8217;s long nightmare may be over: <strong>Frank McCourt<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/dailypitch\/post\/2011\/11\/report-frank-mccourt-could-be-ready-to-sell-dodgers\/1?csp=34sports&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomSports-TopStories+%28Sports+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">apparently willing to sell the team<\/a> for $1B in a deal that seems to completely remove him from gaining any additional benefit from the team (meaning, he has to divest the parking lots he was threatening to keep control over).\u00a0 Now if only <strong>Bud Selig<\/strong> would consider a decent replacement owner instead of one of Selig&#8217;s friends or whoever greased his palm most recently &#8230; ah modern baseball.\u00a0 11\/2\/update: maybe there won&#8217;t be a Selig-appointee; apparently the team will be <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/los-angeles\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/7180599\/frank-mccourt-agrees-sell-los-angeles-dodgers\">sold at auction<\/a>.\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 That means an owner not necessarily hand-picked by Selig and his cronies.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to see <strong>Mark Cuban<\/strong> get involved but apparently he was <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/mlb\/story\/Los-Angeles-Dodgers-Mark-Cuban-says-asking-price-too-steep-11111\">approached a few months ago<\/a> and backed out.<\/li>\n<li>Baseballamerica.com had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/online\/majors\/news\/2012\/2612558.html\">front-page feature<\/a> on the Nats on 11\/1.<\/li>\n<li>FanGraphs&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/blogs\/index.php\/top-10-prospects-washington-nationals\/\">top 15 Nats prospects<\/a> wasn&#8217;t too surprising (also posted 11\/1).\u00a0 I&#8217;m amazed how high <strong>AJ Cole<\/strong> is (called the top pitcher in the system, barely eclipsing the promise of both <strong>Alex Meyer<\/strong> and <strong>Matthew Purke<\/strong>).\u00a0 And I&#8217;m amazed how far <strong>Derek Norris<\/strong> has fallen.\u00a0 The article also points out something rather interesting: the Potomac rotation could be Meyer, Purke, Cole, <strong>Ray <\/strong>and then someone like <strong>Selik<\/strong>.\u00a0 Wow.<\/li>\n<li>SI.com&#8217;s <strong>Ben Reiter<\/strong> put out his <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/writers\/ben_reiter\/11\/01\/reiter.50.free.agents\/index.html?eref=sihp&amp;sct=hp_t11_a1\">list of the top 50 FAs<\/a> available and has the Nats on <strong>Jose Reyes<\/strong> and <strong>Coco Crisp<\/strong>, but not <strong>Prince Fielder<\/strong> or <strong>Edwin Jackson<\/strong>.\u00a0 I guess I wouldn&#8217;t complain if we got both or either guy; either would ably fit into the lead-off spot that we&#8217;ve struggled with for years (and if we got both put them 1-2 &#8230; and move both Espinosa and Desmond&#8217;s .220 batting averages to the bottom of the order).<\/li>\n<li>And here&#8217;s Tim Dierkes&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2011\/10\/2012-top-50-free-agents-1.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MlbTradeRumors+%28MLB+Trade+Rumors%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">top 50 FA list<\/a> with guesses on destinations: He has the Nats mentioned as an interested party with most of the top names and signing only <strong>CJ Wilson<\/strong> of his top 50 list.<\/li>\n<li>And here USA Today&#8217;s <strong>Paul White<\/strong>&#8216;s top 50 FA list, with the Nats projected to land Coco Crisp, <strong>Freddie Garcia<\/strong> (?!?) and <strong>Chein-Ming Wang<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 His comment as to why we&#8217;d sign Garcia?\u00a0 &#8220;Short term fix while the kids develop.&#8221;\u00a0 It makes one wonder if he&#8217;s seen the state of our starting pitching frankly.\u00a0 There&#8217;s little reason to doubt Milone or Peacock (or some combination of both) being able to fit into the 5th starter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ron Dibble<\/strong>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/dc-sports-bog\/post\/rob-dibble-time-with-nats-was-worst-two-years-of-his-life\/2011\/11\/01\/gIQA1JJ8cM_blog.html\">wow<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/baseball\/mlb\/11\/01\/gold.glove.winners.ap\/index.html\">Gold Glove winners announced<\/a>; there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any egregiously bad winners like there was last year (<strong>Derek Jeter<\/strong>).\u00a0 There were some complaints from the likes of <strong>Rob Neyers<\/strong> about the AL shortstop selection, using the Fielding Bible awards as his source.\u00a0 But lets face it; the voters for the golden gloves probably spend about 20 seconds on it, when handed the form while dealing with a gazillion other items in September after a long season.\u00a0 They&#8217;re voting reputations, not Uzr\/150 results.\u00a0 In fact i&#8217;d wager that fully 75% or more of the voters couldn&#8217;t tell you what Ultimate Zone Rating is or how it measures defensive capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>SI&#8217;s <strong>Joe Sheehan<\/strong> puts out a nice overview of each division&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/writers\/joe_sheehan\/11\/02\/nl.east.hot.stove.preview\/index.html?eref=writers\">state of franchise<\/a>&#8221; post, and his thoughts on the Nats are interesting.\u00a0 He has no idea if the team is going to be spooked byWerth&#8217;s contract and poor production, and suggests trading <strong>Tyler Clippard<\/strong> for a CF.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chien-Ming Wang<\/strong> has officially <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/baseball\/mlb\/11\/02\/nationals.chien-ming.wang\/index.html\">re-signed<\/a> with the team, per this SI article late Wednesday night.\u00a0 We got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natsinsider.com\/2011\/11\/wang-returns-to-nats-on-1-year-deal.html\">details thursday<\/a>: 1yr, $4M with some incentives.\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s a bit more than I predicted (I was thinking something in the range of $2.5M as a guess).\u00a0 But it still seems like a good deal, all things considered.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll take a $4M #4 pitcher versus the $7.5M <strong>Marquis<\/strong> cost, and he seems like he could very well improve on his 2011 performance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Byron Kerr<\/strong> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/byron_kerr\/2011\/11\/solis-adds-traditional-curve-to-pitching-repertoire.html\">rather effusive article<\/a> on <strong>Sammy Solis<\/strong> (calling his fastball &#8220;lethal&#8221; and &#8220;high-velocity?&#8221;\u00a0 Sorry Byron; he&#8217;s got #3 starter stuff, not <strong>Randy Johnson<\/strong>-esque power) and his efforts to learn a new pitch; a regular curve-ball.\u00a0 Solis has used a knuckle-curve that spins\/breaks more violently, but is harder to control.\u00a0 He&#8217;s reached the point in his career where he needs alternatives to fastballs and change-ups that he can count on, and hopefully this helps him to the next level.\u00a0 This is a common theme; high schoolers with merely upper 80s stuff can routinely get away with blowing the ball by most of the opposing lineups of weakling 16-18yr olds and sometimes experience a reality check when going up against hitters who can make the adjustment.<\/li>\n<li>The Nats exposed <strong>Brian Bixler<\/strong> to waivers (i.e., designated him for assignment to remove him from the 40-man) and he got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/post\/nationals-brian-bixler-claimed-by-astros-off-waivers\/2011\/11\/03\/gIQARH73iM_blog.html?wprss=nationals-journal\">claimed by the Astros<\/a>.\u00a0 Not a major loss (he had a 47 ops+ last season), but still someone who could have helped out next year had he passed through to our AAA roster and been able to be &#8220;stashed&#8221; in Syracuse.\u00a0 Best of luck to him.\u00a0 His position is easily replaced from within from someone like <strong>Lombardozzi<\/strong>, or on the FA market similar to our 2011 signings of <strong>Hairston<\/strong> and <strong>Cora.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">http:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?pos=P&amp;sid=l119&amp;t=p_pbp&amp;pid=545357<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a weekly wrap up of Nats-related news items, with my thoughts as appropriate. 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