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***OFFICIAL*** Washington Nationals ongoing thread (1 Viewer)

Marvelous said:
Encyclopedia Brown said:
On the ESPN broadcast they mentioned how Gio Gonzalez was mad at being pulled early in previous starts, so tonight Matt Williams leaves him out there to throw 110 pitches in five innings.
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When the Nats first got Gio, Mrs. Marvelous would always comment about how happy he looked with a big smile on his face. On off days, he would be chatting it up with others, especially Strasburg.

Nowadays, Gio always looks grumpy. And he doesn't look very friendly with his teammates. It is like his disposition has changed.
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I suspect his disposition has changed because he's having a crappy season, not vice-versa. He had plenty to be happy about in 2012, he was having a career year.

 
Marvelous said:
Swing 51 said:
(08/11/14) The Nationals tested the interest in outfielder Bryce Harper and starter Stephen Strasburg by placing them on revocable waivers and pulling them back when they were claimed, per USA Today.
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I know this is common procedure, but I suspect they both had 20-29 waiver claims. Not sure why the would put either of them on revocable waivers.
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Why not? Maybe the Cubs offer Baez and Bryant for Strasburg or something.

 
Hey Bryce, maybe look into getting a helmet that fits so it won't come down over your eyes when you swing the bat. It could help this whole hitting the baseball hard thing you're going for.

 
To quote a former coach from the Redskins: THERE'S A GLEAM FELLAS. :pickle:

if get this closer situation straighted out then there is nothing stopping us to at least making the NLCS

 
Another great Strasburg game. 8 innings, one run on three hits with a tired bullpen that needed a day off. That makes four outstanding starts for him in the last five games (7+ innings, one run or less in each). Of course all Nats fans will remember is the one game where he got shelled.

There's other great players who get #### on worse by fans with ridiculous expectations- Votto and Mauer are two that come to mind. I hate seeing Nats fans edge into that territory with Strasburg. Hopefully a great postseason start or two will end the madness.

 
This recent run has been awesome and fun and incredibly fortunate, but the good breaks in close games is still just evening out from earlier in the season. This is a dominant team, not a lucky one. Their +101 run differential is seven runs better than the second and third best teams in the NL combined. It's only 11 runs behind the pace of the 98 win team in 2012 at this juncture.

That said, two possible playoff scenarios that bother me even if the success continues:

1. We keep this up, are the 1 seed in the NL, and get stuck playing the Cards with Wacha and Yadi back on the active roster in the NLDS. I'd rather play any other team in the NL playoff race except maybe the Dodgers.

2. We have the greatest baseball season in Washington since 1924, make it to the World Series, and then lose to the Orioles and never hear the end of it from their increasingly obnoxious DC-area fans and have to live with that instead of just remembering an incredible season. :X

 
DC O's fans are the worst

For the first time I've started getting dirty looks and bad service down here in Braves country where I'm from.. so something good must be happening

 
Swing 51 said:
After the last few years every playoff scenario bothers me.
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I've come to grips with the fact that the MLB playoffs are a crap shoot, and the best you can do is win the division so you get the automatic spot in the division series and then hope for the best. But those two would be particularly brutal IMO

 
Every playoff scenario kind of worries me too. Cards are going to be a tough out, but they are not as good as they were in 2012, and they'd probably have to use up Wainwright in the wild card game. I like our chances in that matchup a lot better than in 2012, particularly if Zim is back in September.

But I'm just enjoying the ride right now. Pulling for a win today, so we can see Matt Williams do his Babe Ruth impression.

 
collective said:
TobiasFunke said:
collective said:
JZilla said:
Seems a little like misdirected anger at an organization whose players have largely regressed.
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Which is why I think this year is the norm for the Nats and last year was the fluke season with all of the career years.
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I don't understand what you mean by a "norm" for a baseball team. Their personnel changes and ages every season.

And they didn't all have career years last year. Werth is easily better this year than last year. Desmond's been just as good. Harper's OPS is 80 points higher . I would be shocked if Strasburg ends his career with his 4.1 fWAR from 2012 as the high point. And so on.

The problems this year are the unfathomably awful bench, uncharacteristically mediocre defense, an underperforming bullpen and terrible pitching from the back end of the rotation. Of those things only the defense is attributable to the 10-12 core franchise guys, and all of them are easily fixable.
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"Norm" a team that hovers around .500 consistently.
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Hey, whatever happened to our favorite posty alias collective?

 
Starting to look like an ugly 3-6 type road trip with Felix and Kershaw waiting for us out west. Sounds weird to say this with a 7.5 game lead, but kind of a big game tonight to keep it from possibly being even worse than that. Thankfully the Braves just aren't very good.

 
valhallan said:
Had to figure winning a bunch of close games would be balanced by losing some close games.
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I thought winning a bunch of close games during the streak was the correction for all the close games they lost earlier this season. I thought this Philly series might be trouble with Hamels waiting to kill our lefty-heavy lineup and Fister and Roark starting to regress, but I figured we'd get at least one.

One interesting/reassuring tidbit- this exact same thing happened in 2012. We got swept in late August on the road in Philly as part of a 5 game losing streak, lost three games to the Braves in the process. Eerily similar. Hopefully this September will be as stress-free as that September.

 
Swing 51 said:
JZilla said:
Well that's nice, Kershaw went and made the Nats his all around #####.
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As expected. Now hopefully we can knock around LA's Frias this afternoon and take 2 out of 3.
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Four of six on this west coast swing would be impressive. I'd say it was the final nail in the coffin but it seems the Braves have already done the job for us.

Would be big to keep the top seed in the NL, though. The Cards are going to win the Central and I have zero interest in facing Wainwright twice + Wacha and Lackey in a five game set, especially with Molina back. Also would suck to have to hear about 2012 Game 5 thousands of times before and during the playoffs.

 
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Ramblin Wreck said:
Hell of a game today. Bullpen worries me but this team is really good.
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Amazing. One of the rare regular season games I'll never forget.

The game in tweets and images. And that doesn't even have the post-LaRoche theatrics in the 9th ending with Werth dropping a fly ball to let the Dodgers tie it, or the two based-loaded one-out escapes by the Nats pen in extras, or LaRoche's Jake Taylor routine for the third of the Nats go-ahead runs. And I'd totally forgotten about the Dee Gordon HBP that wasn't.

It does have the two best images, though- the 9 spot in the Nats' box score and the glorious fat guy sunbather.

 
Just when you thought it was safe to watch the Nats have a lead in 8th or 9th, Soriano comes in and blows it. You can't have this guy as your #1 reliever in the playoffs. I mean the reason he was brought in because everyone was so bothered about what happened to Soren in Game 5 against the Cardinals. He is doing the same thing

At least the hitters are always in the fight after the blown save. Years ago they might have wilted in it.

 
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hammerva said:
Just when you thought it was safe to watch the Nats have a lead in 8th or 9th, Soriano comes in and blows it. You can't have this guy as your #1 reliever in the playoffs. I mean the reason he was brought in because everyone was so bothered about what happened to Soren in Game 5 against the Cardinals. He is doing the same thing

At least the hitters are always in the fight after the blown save. Years ago they might have wilted in it.
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This never made sense, and was one of the few Rizzo moves I didn't like in his time here. It wasn't like Storen melted down in a hail of walks and HRs in Game 5. There were two walks, but one of them was iffy- Molina appeared to strike out, which would have ended the game, but got the benefit of the call. And the two key hits after that were both seeing-eye singles. Desmond had one go off his glove. On the other hand, they had the money to spend and no immediate need, so I guess there was no reason NOT to bring in Soriano, other than the lost draft pick and some bruised egos.

Anyway, all's well that ends well. Drew looks better than ever, he should keep the job through the postseason, and hopefully Soriano can bounce back and be the right-handed 6th and 7th inning guy (I love Barrett for when you need a K but his lack of control is scary).

 
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OK, might as well take a shot at this since it seems to be the rage in Natstown these days:

Postseason Roster

Cabrera

Desmond

Espinosa

LaRoche

Rendon

Zimmerman

Frandsen

Harper

Span

Werth

Souza (!)

Ramos

Lobaton

Zimmermann

Strasburg

Fister

Gonzalez

Roark

Storen

Clippard

Thornton

Stammen

Barrett

Soriano/Treinen (Soriano if he gets his #### together, Treinen if he doesn't)

Blevins/Detwiler (favor Detwiler unless Blevins pitches well over the last couple games)

 
dgreen said:
Are you comfortable with Gio over Roark?
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Yeah I think so. Gio actually has a lower ERA than Roark over the last month, plus Roark is already at a career high for innings pitched in a season. Only one strikeout last night was also a little troublesome. I think he's the real deal, but I also think he's tiring. Also Gio's our only lefty- I feel like if you're playing the same team that many times in a row you maybe want to throw some different looks at them.

After watching Werth misplay another fly ball last night I'm kinda wondering if they should include Taylor. He could be a defensive replacement in RF and a pinch runner.

 
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Fantasy football, huh? While it’s true that nobody cares about your fantasy football team, it was somewhat amusing to hear Commissioner Stammen shed some light on the Nationals’ league. Stammen said Jordan Zimmermann has won the league several times and Stephen Strasburg is the guy who wakes up in the middle of the night to beat everyone to the waiver wire.

“The last couple of days Stras was talking about whether he should pick up Justin Forsett,” Stammen said. “Clippard’s scrambling trying to find a running back. It’s something to keep our minds off baseball a little bit so that we don’t start focusing on how many games we’ve got to win and how many Braves games the Braves have got to lose for us to clinch the division, but it keeps that team camaraderie going, it keeps us being good friends with each other, it’s a little bit of competition on the side without having to compete with each other on the field.”

Stammen said the competitiveness of the league tends to weed out the players who aren’t especially into it, but he made an executive decision to give a Nats veteran the boot.

“We kicked Jayson Werth out of the league this year,” Stammen said. “Jayson failed to pay last year. He didn’t pay until spring training, so we kicked him out of the league for late payment.”
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Can base runners not advance on a hit-by-pitch? Span gets hit and the ball goes way off to the side. Harper on third but he doesn't run home.

 
Looks like we've got two #1s to choose from for October. I honestly don't know what I'd do. Strasburg seems like the high risk/high reward play. Might roll the dice on him since Game 1 and the potential game 5 would be at home, where he excels.

ETA: I just checked his gamelog and he's got 28 Ks and zero walks in his last four starts. I think that pretty much settles it unless he gets blown up in one of his last two starts.

 
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Swing 51 said:
Wtf is the deal with Soriano?
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I think he's done. There is literally nothing worse you can do as a relief pitcher than walk a guy who does not represent the tying or winning run in the 9th. If you get to a 3 ball count you might as well throw a BP fastball in the heart of the plate since a HR is no worse than a walk in that spot. And yet Soriano missed the zone by several inches. That's evidence of huge issues. Like Williams said, I didn't even really mind the hits that much, but the walk was pretty damning.

 
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Man is this a celebration for winning the NL East Division in the home of their biggest headache or a rave going on in this locker room. We got the fog and the lasers :pickle: :pickle:
So good to see Storen getting the save as well. Nobody deserves redemption more than him and hopefully he gets it
 
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