Nats Pitching

…this is shaping up to be a decent/competitive rotation in the next year or two…

Take a look at the Federal Baseball Wins Above Replacement Projection Project, our attempt to apply some stats to projecting the 2009 season. This is the most recent post (and it has links to all the previous ones, too).

AA guy against the FotF?

from http://nats320.blogspot.com/

"Zimmerman had no chance because Zimmermann was on top of his game.

 Twice Ryan Zimmerman was fooled by Jordan Zimmermann’s pitches. Once getting Our Number 11 to swing and miss on a beautiful changeup—setup by a steady diet of fastballs. Then a second time on a wicked slider that had Ryan muttering, chuckling and shaking his head as he stepped out of the batting cage.

Jordan Zimmerman throws hard."

  And in other news, Daniel Cabrera, a “work in progress”……….

   “Randy St.Claire seems to have found a flaw in Cabrera’s pitching motion. Consistently, Our Number 46 marked off a forward foot landing point for Daniel to hit. At the same time, encouraging Our Number 40 to NOT pitch so straight up and down. "Daniel, extend your left foot toward the line, follow through and bend over. We want to see a nice and easy motion from you.”

St.Claire was pleased with Cabrera’s progress in the side session. But once Daniel got on the mound to pitch live BP—St.Claire was standing right there—yelling over to Cabrera to pick up the pace, find a better rhythm. Everyone knows Daniel Cabrera can consistently throw as hard as anyone in the game. The problem has always been he gets lost eventually and falls apart."

Brian, i hope you’re right, but count me in the “wait and see” camp (ss my sig line).

if Lannan and Hill combine for 50 starts, i’ll eat my hat. obviously Perez is gone so he’ll have to be replaced in your prediction. and if “Oh Danny Boy” Cabrera has a sub-5.00 ERA, i’ll eat YOUR hat, not to mention the 30 starts. also, Chico isn’t going to be anyhwere near a MLB mound until July at the earliest.

folks, we’re in for a season of revolving starting pitching. Lannan and Olsen are the only bets to make it though all season, and even Olsen has some lingering questions.

get ready for a string of Balestar, Mock, Bergmann, Martis, Zimmermann, maybe even Towers, Clippard and Chacin if we’re not lucky. this season is going to be all about finding out which of the young guys are going to stick.

the back of the pen is set with Hanrahan and Rivera, and we’ll see Shell, Hinckley, Estrada, Sosa, Colome, Larrison, JD Martin, Ledezma, Glover, Atilano and Young all paly roles as the season goes along.

we should start a pool. how many pitchers will the Nats use this year? i think i’ll go out to the main page and start it.