{"id":6250,"date":"2013-03-25T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2013-10-06T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T14:33:38","slug":"no-takers-for-carlos-rivero-plus-rule-5-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6250","title":{"rendered":"No takers for Carlos Rivero plus Rule-5 returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6027\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RiveroCarlos-Brad-Barr-US-Presswire-via-bleacherreport.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6027\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6027\" title=\"RiveroCarlos Brad Barr US Presswire via bleacherreport.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RiveroCarlos-Brad-Barr-US-Presswire-via-bleacherreport.com_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Rivero snuck through waivers and stays with the organization.  Photo Brad Barr\/US Presswire via bleacherreport.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Great news 3\/25\/13: the Nats exposed <strong>Carlos Rivero<\/strong> to waivers, got no takers and he was <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20130324&amp;content_id=43217738&amp;notebook_id=43243974&amp;vkey=notebook_was&amp;c_id=was\">outrighted to AAA Syracuse<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I know he didn&#8217;t have the greatest numbers this spring (8-for-47 for a meager .170 BA), but he seems like he could be a valuable utility guy in a pinch, able to play multiple positions both in the infield and outfield. \u00a0 I liked what I saw from him in limited TV time this spring. \u00a0I&#8217;m glad he made it through waivers and remains an option in our farm system for at least this year.<\/p>\n<p>He also clears a spot off the 40 man, leaving us sitting at 38\/40. \u00a0Plenty of room to make moves if need be. \u00a0But not a ton of manuverability; of the 38 guys remaining, you can only really make a case for <strong>Corey Brown<\/strong> as being relatively expendible\/likely to pass through waivers. \u00a0If we get a slew of injuries like last season that cause us to do mass call-ups, we may have to heavily depend on the 60-day DL.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another year of Rule-5 complaining (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5270\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5429\">here<\/a>) has essentially proven once again to be wasted breath; both <strong>Jeff Kobernus<\/strong> and <strong>Danny Rosenbaum<\/strong> have been returned to the team. \u00a0 Kobernus still seemingly sits behind <strong>Steve Lombardozzi,\u00a0Anthony Rendon<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Wil Rhymes<\/strong> on the team&#8217;s 2nd base depth chart, meaning we&#8217;d have to have a pretty bad slate of injuries for him to sniff the majors this year. \u00a0But, it is nice to have him back, considering his draft pedigree and bonus money investment. \u00a0Rosenbaum was our AA Ace last year and started out with ace-like stuff, but struggled in the 2nd half. \u00a0Given that the team suddenly has a slew of starter arms in AAA (especially if <strong>Chris Young<\/strong> sticks around, though he probably walks), perhaps we&#8217;ll see Rosenbaum starting in AA again. \u00a0Not likely though; would you rather challenge Rosenbaum in AAA or give another year of starts to someone like <strong>Tanner Roark<\/strong> at this point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news 3\/25\/13: the Nats exposed Carlos Rivero to waivers, got no takers and he was outrighted to AAA Syracuse over the weekend. I know he didn&#8217;t have the greatest numbers this spring (8-for-47 for a meager .170 BA), but he seems like he could be a valuable utility guy in a pinch, able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,2039],"tags":[185,884,349,143,851,392,142,77,1601],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minorspitching","category-natsgeneral","category-rule-5","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-carlos-rivero","tag-chris-young","tag-corey-brown","tag-danny-rosenbaum","tag-jeff-kobernus","tag-steve-lombardozzi","tag-tanner-roark","tag-wil-rhymes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","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=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6258,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}