Nationals Daily Evolutions 12/6/10

what a loss

Time and time again I am convinced the people who write these articles know very little about our system. Peralta was good, but he didn’t pitch but so many of the highest leverage innings and he won’t be getting but so many of them again with younger guys with better draft status higher in the pecking order.

Storen/Clippard/Burnett/Balester are all ahead of him at this time and on the back end you’ve got Kimball and Carr and you need 40-man slots for some of the other moves that you want to make.

NatsTownNews: Washington Nationals Manager Jim Riggleman will be on with @thomloverro at 12:40 p.m. on “The Sports Fix” on ESPN 980 and espn980.com.

acquire Mark Reynolds for David Hernandez and Kam Rickolio. Meh.

@Ken_Rosenthal: Loney a trade option? http://bit.ly/b7JX0U #Cubs #Nationals #Dodgers #MLB

Relievers? Why are we looking for relievers if we nontendered Peralta? That doesn’t make as much sense to me. Didn’t we learn anything from Bruney?

“This was part of our plan all along”
“we offered a lot of money to a pitcher who chose to re-sign in Colorado”
“players play, money doesn’t play”
“if you look at all the clubs that contend it keeps coming back to pitching”
“it may come in the form of a guy like Solis who we drafted last year”
“we’ll get a first basemen one way or another”
“we’re getting more athletic on the field”
“i don’t know if there are any more moves that will be made in the outfield”
“i anticipate that willingham will be there”
“nyjer morgan in centerfield”
“morse can play first base also”
“if somebody overwhelms Rizzo for Willingham”

Willingham sounds very much like stubborn Rizzo waiting for awhile. And yet again 980 won’t take calls on a major baseball story.

We kicked the tires on Loney. Does filling a first base hole with a younger player from the left hand side make sense? Seems like comparable salary to me with Loney due 4.5-5M

#Nats’ Jim Riggleman on ESPN 980 says he expects Willingham, Morgan and Werth will be Nats’ OF in 2011…

Thanks for quick take, SD.

Now if it’s Werth departure and the Dominic Brown’s struggles in Winter Ball lead the Fightin’s to consider Francoeur for right field that would make the deal even sweeter for me. Francoeur is barely an MLB player.

Braves are interested in Lorenzo Cain. Sounds like a guy we’d want if we actually had pitching prospects. Really hope that more of our 4/5 guys pan out this year so we can move them for some at least halfway decent prospects.

Goodbye and good riddance. Have fun with Hanrahan.

Werth all of a sudden at30 looked like the real deal, is he a late bloomer who will stay around or someone who will have a very short lived career.
I think he was werth the long contract. I would mayeb front load this type of contractas a GM soif he burns out in 3 seasons we are not holding onto such a high $$$ contract. he becomes more movable, even cutable.

if I were GM- years 1-4 at $20 million= $80 million
year 5 at $18, 6 at $16= $114million

only $12 million in year 7. so if he becomes old we trade him and pay a smaller amount of his salary.

same type of deal with Lee