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***OFFICIAL*** Washington Nationals ongoing thread (3 Viewers)

Marvelous said:
Found this blurb on federalbaseball.com

"For the fourth day in a row, Anthony Rendon was not in the Class AA Harrisburg lineup on Wednesday." - "Anthony Rendon sitting out again at Harrisburg (UPDATED)" - James Wagner, The Washington Post
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The Nats have not said much, but this apparently is a major setback for Rendon. Four days sounds like more than just fatigue, which is what they initially called it.
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Yeah it's been troubling. And Harrisburg was off yesterday, so now he hasn't played five days in a row, which presumably means he has to reset his rehab and won't be back until well into next week at the earliest. He did get in some swings and take some ground balls yesterday, though.

 
Good: 3 out of 4 in NY. Great starting pitching and Storen saved two 1-0 wins. Great comeback tonight with Roark striking out Stanton to seal it.

Bad: Rendon is being shut down again. Strained oblique

 
Werth is out of the lineup again today, second straight day. That combined with his terrible start and the Rendon news has me a little nervous. This offense needs at least one of them performing at their projected level in order to be an average MLB offense, and both of them to be good. An average offense would probably suffice given the starting pitching, but they're not gonna make up ground very quickly putting up 2-3 runs a game.

 
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Nats seem to hit a lot of solo HRs, but I haven't looked up the stats to see if that's true or not.

HRs good. HRs with men on, better. Expert analysis for you.

I remember when Josh Willingham had 9 HRs and only 12 RBIs at one point in a season.

 
dgreen said:
Nats seem to hit a lot of solo HRs, but I haven't looked up the stats to see if that's true or not.

HRs good. HRs with men on, better. Expert analysis for you.

I remember when Josh Willingham had 9 HRs and only 12 RBIs at one point in a season.
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Yeah, the guys who've been hitting in front of Harper haven't been getting on base. They only moved Escobar up recently (was mostly Desi before that IIRC), and Werth in the 3 spot has obviously been in a season-long slump. Zimmerman actually leads the team in RBIs despite a .631 OPS ... because he's batting behind Harper, who is on base constantly. Ramos has also been tearing it up, usually out of the 6 spot.

Having Span/Escobar hitting 1/2 and hopefully Werth pulling himself out of the slump should get our MVP candidate some better RBI chances. Having Rendon in the 2 spot should help even more, when he returns for Spring Training in 2017.

 
Yeah, the guys who've been hitting in front of Harper haven't been getting on base.
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And when they do get on they haven't really been pitching to him. Kid has looked locked in all year in spite of the strikeouts.

 
Hunter Pence is starting his rehab assignment today.

Hunter Pence BROKE HIS ARM three days before Anthony Rendon "banged his knee" and we were told it was "nothing major" and he'd be "fine in a day or two."

 
That was an ugly win. Not sure why anyone is pitching to Harper right now, this isn't the typical MLB player on fire. This is Bryce Harper :hot:

 
Even before this game the Nats ranked #11 in the NL in starting pitcher WHIP.

I guess the good news is that you have to think it can only get better from here? Barring multiple injuries it seems pretty unlikely that this group finishes outside the Top 5 in any significant category.

 
TobiasFunke said:
Even before this game the Nats ranked #11 in the NL in starting pitcher WHIP.

I guess the good news is that you have to think it can only get better from here? Barring multiple injuries it seems pretty unlikely that this group finishes outside the Top 5 in any significant category.
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Did you factor in Strasburg looking like the Hindenburg and Gio Gonzalez looking like Jose Gonzalez who plays in my local softball league? If not, you might want to go back to the formula room.

 
Roark was better than Gio last year too. Kind of weird that they keep throwing Gio out there. I guess the idea is that Gio has no bullpen experience, but Roark did/does. Seems weak reasoning though.

 
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Doctor Detroit said:
TobiasFunke said:
Even before this game the Nats ranked #11 in the NL in starting pitcher WHIP.

I guess the good news is that you have to think it can only get better from here? Barring multiple injuries it seems pretty unlikely that this group finishes outside the Top 5 in any significant category.
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Did you factor in Strasburg looking like the Hindenburg and Gio Gonzalez looking like Jose Gonzalez who plays in my local softball league? If not, you might want to go back to the formula room.
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Fister is no gem either. 2IP, 31.50 ERA, 4.50 WHIP.

:moneybag:

 
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Doctor Detroit said:
Doctor Detroit said:
TobiasFunke said:
Even before this game the Nats ranked #11 in the NL in starting pitcher WHIP.

I guess the good news is that you have to think it can only get better from here? Barring multiple injuries it seems pretty unlikely that this group finishes outside the Top 5 in any significant category.
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Did you factor in Strasburg looking like the Hindenburg and Gio Gonzalez looking like Jose Gonzalez who plays in my local softball league? If not, you might want to go back to the formula room.
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Fister is no gem either. 2IP, 31.50 ERA, 4.50 WHIP.

:moneybag:
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It's gotta correct. It has to, right? One top tier starter pulling a Verlander/Cain, sure. You almost expect that. Two? Unlikely but possible, I guess. Four? No way.

Also, Anthony Rendon will eventually return. I like to think that his ethereal presence will inspire the mere mortals with whom he shares a dugout to new heights.

 
It is hard to see him getting PT over Espinosa with the way he's been playing. There is some twitter speculation that it may just be for a day or two until Janssen is ready. Although Janssen was reportedly going to be activated today, and I guess that's not happening.

 
ESPN Website:

Ryan Zimmerman now has 10 walk-off homers in his career thanks to Tuesday night. He's tied for the third-most in NL history -- only Hall-of-Famers Stan Musial and Tony Perez have more.
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Swing 51 said:
Anyone know the backstory on the chocolate-syrup celebration bit?
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The Nats are 17-4 since the syrup debuted, the best record in baseball over that stretch. And while Scherzer laughed his celebration off as “typical baseball stuff” and “baseball players doing baseball things,” you can imagine a world in which chocolate syrup comes to symbolize something grander.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/05/21/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nats-hersheys-chocolate-syrup-celebrations/

 
The Mets are not nearly as easy to hate as the Braves. Less objectionable across the board: likeable players, less obnoxious fans on the internet, less obnoxious fans visiting Nats Park (surprising- I think it's the lack of a chop). I feel like I should find some reasons to dislike them to spice up this division race.

 
Kind of weird that Werth is out until August, and my reaction is close to "good, less chance of him getting another injury that will keep him out of the postseason." Bit of a change from a few years ago. (Of course, things get dicier if the Nats suffer another OF injury in the interim.)

 
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Don Quixote said:
Kind of weird that Werth is out until August, and my reaction is close to "good, less chance of him getting another injury that will keep him out of the postseason." Bit of a change from a few years ago. (Of course, things get dicier if the Nats suffer another OF injury in the interim.)
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I hope he plays Michael Taylor every day now and ends this Taylor, Moore, Robinson platoon.

 
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