{"id":833,"date":"2011-03-15T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2011-03-15T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:22:32","slug":"big-spring-training-game-today-for-nats-pitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"Big Spring Training Game today for Nats Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Per new Washington Times beat reporter Amanda Comak’s post this morning<\/a>, here’s today’s pitching lineup:<\/p>\n

SP – Tom Gorzelanny – 1 start, 2.1 innings, 5 H, 3 R (2 ER), 3 BB, 1 K, 7.71 ERA
\nRHP Craig Stammen – 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R (1ER), 2 BB, 5 K, 1.50 ERA
\nRHP Henry Rodriguez – 0.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R (1ER), 3 BB, 27.00 ERA (keep in mind he’s only made one appearance)
\nRHP Brian Broderick – 7.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R (1ER), 0 BB, 1 K, 1.17 ERA
\nRHP Collin Balester – 5 IP, 5 H, 3 R (2ER), 2 BB, 4 K, 3.60 ERA
\nRHP Cole Kimball – 6 IP, 4 H, 1 R (1ER), 1 HB, 1 BB, 5 K, 1.50 ERA<\/p>\n

Nearly every guy on this list has some serious question marks in terms of performance thus far in the Spring.\u00a0 Gorzelanny<\/strong> almost certainly has a rotation spot guaranteed but has not shown us nearly the capabilities he was known for pre-trade.\u00a0 Stammen<\/strong>‘s role with this team and his future with the organization is cloudy; clearly he’s not being considered as a starter any more but there’s way too many guys for a bullpen role.\u00a0 Rodriguez<\/strong> showed up late, has no options and is pretty much guaranteed a bullpen spot … so he better be worth it.\u00a0 Broderick<\/strong> is a rule5 guy on a team that absolutely cannot afford to keep a rule5 guy (making you wonder why bother to pick them up?), but he’s looked good this spring and you have to wonder if he’s going to be acquired or kept at this point. Balester<\/strong> (like Stammen) seems to be falling behind in the race for the long-man out of the bullpen competition, which is odd considering his very good 2010 numbers.<\/p>\n

Only Kimball<\/strong> seems destined to know his fate already; he’s bound for the AAA closer role, having performed admirably at both high-A and AA last year.\u00a0 It is only a matter of time before he gets called up and slots into the back of our bullpen.<\/p>\n

Can’t wait to hit refresh on that #Nats twitter tag<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Per new Washington Times beat reporter Amanda Comak’s post this morning, here’s today’s pitching lineup: SP – Tom Gorzelanny – 1 start, 2.1 innings, 5 H, 3 R (2 ER), 3 BB, 1 K, 7.71 ERA RHP Craig Stammen – 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R (1ER), 2 BB, 5 K, 1.50 ERA RHP Henry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}