{"id":8232,"date":"2013-12-11T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2013-12-11T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:11:34","slug":"blevin-acquired-who-is-getting-dfad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8232","title":{"rendered":"Blevin Acquired; who is getting DFA&#8217;d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8234\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BlevinsJerry-unk-via-wikipedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8234\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8234\" alt=\"Welcome to Washington, Mr. Blevins.  Photo via wikipedia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BlevinsJerry-unk-via-wikipedia-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to Washington, Mr. Blevins. Photo via wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The unexpected happened today: the Nats acquired a loogy. \u00a0Even more unexpected;\u00a0<strong>Mike Rizzo<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Billy Beane<\/strong>\u00a0teamed up to consummate a trade (this is the 7th trade between the clubs in just the last 3 seasons).\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome\u00a0<strong>Jerry Blevins<\/strong>; you&#8217;re arrival has been widely speculated upon. \u00a0Heading the other way is the Nats 2013 minor league hitter of the year\u00a0<strong>Billy Burns<\/strong>, a non-prospect in the eyes of analysts but certainly a favorite of many who follow the Nats farm systems. \u00a0I liked Burns, but in all honestly he&#8217;s so far down our current OF depth chart that he clearly was an expendible resource, despite his potential.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m somewhat ambivalent on Blevins: his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/split.cgi?id=blevije01&amp;year=2013&amp;t=p\">2013 splits against lefties<\/a> were, frankly, not impressive (a .740 OPS). \u00a0It could be a one-season deviation though, since his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/split.cgi?id=blevije01&amp;year=Career&amp;t=p\">career splits<\/a> are much better (.224 BAA). \u00a0He&#8217;s a lefty in the pen who mostly pitched in lower-leverage situations for Oakland this year, leaving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/split.cgi?id=doolise01&amp;year=&amp;t=p\">higher leverage situations<\/a> to the better lefty in Oakland&#8217;s pen, UVA&#8217;s own\u00a0<strong>Sean Doolittle<\/strong>. \u00a0So, we gave up a lesser prospect to get a lesser reliever.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the fun part: We were at 39\/40 on the 40-man roster with the\u00a0<strong>Doug Fister<\/strong> trade. \u00a0<strong>Nate McLouth<\/strong> makes 40. \u00a0Blevins makes 41. \u00a0Somebody&#8217;s getting DFA&#8217;d, likely today. \u00a0Who makes way?<\/p>\n<p>The obvious candidate is\u00a0<strong>Corey Brown<\/strong>. \u00a0Brown&#8217;s chances of making the 2014 team took a severe hit with the McLouth signing. \u00a0More importantly; Brown no longer has any minor league options and he would likely have been DFA&#8217;d at the end of next spring training anyway. \u00a0Designating him now is the right thing to do for him by the organization, cutting him loose now to try to catch on with the best possible organization that will give him a shot at getting back to the major leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Summary; expected move #3 of 4 this off-season has occurred (#1 being another starter, #2 being some bench help). \u00a0Last move\u00a0<strong>John Buck<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unexpected happened today: the Nats acquired a loogy. \u00a0Even more unexpected;\u00a0Mike Rizzo\u00a0and\u00a0Billy Beane\u00a0teamed up to consummate a trade (this is the 7th trade between the clubs in just the last 3 seasons).\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome\u00a0Jerry Blevins; you&#8217;re arrival has been widely speculated upon. \u00a0Heading the other way is the Nats 2013 minor league hitter of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[212,2124,143,241,2123,129,2103,1347],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-natsgeneral","tag-billy-beane","tag-billy-burns","tag-corey-brown","tag-doug-fister","tag-jerry-blevins","tag-mike-rizzo","tag-nate-mclouth","tag-sean-doolittle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232","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=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}