{"id":34,"date":"2010-07-24T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2012-11-15T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:09:49","slug":"have-we-found-our-rf-solution-on-our-bench-and-pitching-comments-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Have we found our RF solution… on our Bench? And Pitching comments (of course)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Morse.\u00a0 2-3 with two homers last night in the pitcher friendly confines of Milwakuee.\u00a0 Raises his season slash line figures to .338\/.386\/.636.\u00a0 That’s a 1.022 ops and a 170 ops+ figure (by way of comparison, Votto is currently leading the NL in ops with 1.003).<\/p>\n

He has 6 homers in 38 games, projecting to about 25 in a 150 game season.\u00a0 He makes a ton of contact (15 ks in those same 38 games, projecting to only 60 or so in a full season).<\/p>\n

I don’t get it.\u00a0 We have a struggling center fielder\/leadoff hitter in Morgan, and right next to him a surprising Bernadina character who has speed and a bit of power and could lead off\/play centerfield.\u00a0 Why aren’t we going Willingham-Bernadina-Morse in the outfield?\u00a0 Lineup would be:<\/p>\n

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  1. Bernadina<\/li>\n
  2. Guzman<\/li>\n
  3. Zimmerman<\/li>\n
  4. Dunn<\/li>\n
  5. Willingham<\/li>\n
  6. Morse<\/li>\n
  7. Desmond<\/li>\n
  8. Pudge<\/li>\n
  9. pitcher<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That would give us ops+ guys over 100 in 3-4-5-6 spots, would give Willingham some protection, and would put a better producing guy at the top of the lineup.<\/p>\n

    Read through Stark’s espn chat yesterday<\/a> and he took some Dunn trade questions.<\/p>\n

    Basically he says that the word on the street is that Dunn wants to stay but also wants a 4 year guaranteed contract.\u00a0 He’s also hearing that the Nats have a “higher than
    \naverage” opinion of themselves and want to keep their 3-4-5 hitters in tact because we have so many arms coming back.\u00a0 This agrees with Kasten’s recent comments that we’re “closer than you would think.”\u00a0 And its hard to argue.\u00a0 We’re puttering along with 3 guys in the rotation who would other wise be in AAA (Stammen, Atilano, Martin).
    \nWe never intended Livan to be our season savior; he was always meant to be a placeholder until Strasburg and Wang got healthy.<\/p>\n

    Now we’re looking at a situation by late august where we have way too many guys for the roatation.\u00a0 Here’s a quick rundown on our former MLB arms:<\/p>\n