Nationals News: More Cuts Edition

by John Quinn on Mar 12, 2010 10:31 AM EST

On the heels of yesterday's roster reduction of 8, the Nats have announced that C Devin Ivany and 1B Josh Whitesell were sent to minor league camp.

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Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to make his next Spring Training start this Sunday, and Adam Kilgore speculates that this may be his last start this spring before being sent to minor league camp. Livan Hernandez is expected to follow Stephen Strasburg's start, and will pitch three innings.

Eddie Guardado was surprised that he was released by the Nats yesterday, but Jim Riggleman points out that they were doing Eddie a favor in releasing him when they did, so he could get a shot with another team this season.

It's never too early to start thinking about the 2010 draft!

Mark Zuckerman sat down with Rick Short, who made his major league debut in 2005 with the Nationals after 12 long seasons in the minors.

MLB Trade Rumors assesses the Nats' offseason.

Yesterday's game was cancelled due to rain, and today's game is not likely to take place.

Bill Ladson had an interview with Stephen Strasburg.

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Why is it considered fait accompli?

Why has it become established that Hernandez will make the team and the starting rotation? Doesn’t anyone realize how perfectly awful he’s been the last three years? And by perfectly, I mean that his occasional good starts happen just often enough so that teams (bad teams, I mean) ignore his truly horrendous starts, which occur at roughly the same frequency.

How can anyone justify the following collections of facts:
(1) The Nationals had the worst team ERA in the league last year
(2) Livan had an ERA worse than the average for the rest of the Nationals’ squad
(3) The Nationals re-signed Livan and have more-or-less granted him another spot in the rotation this year.

Let me give you a quick quote from a Baseball Prospectus article today:

“There is a poker game called Razz, a variant of stud poker where the object is to make the lowest hand (Ace-2-3-4-5 is best as opposed to Ace-King-Queen-Jack-10). If there’s a fantasy league out there where strikeouts are bad and high ERA’s are good (Razz Fantasy Baseball?) then Moyer and Kendrick would be welcome additions to your squad. However, if you play in any kind of a normal league, then you’ll want to avoid Moyer and Kendrick until you’re absolutely desperate. And I mean desperate. Desperate as in Livan Hernandez is off the board.”

Rob

"'CLIMATOLOGY' is just 'ACT GLOOMILY' spelled sideways..."

by RobBobS on Mar 12, 2010 11:57 AM EST reply actions

Ouch...

The only way it’s justified is in a “we know we’re not going to compete” so why waste our young arms sort of way. Livan can throw the ball over the plate, get hit hard, pitch 180-200 innings and allow the team to be as careful as they want with the young arms. That’s the only way in which it makes sense…

Man, that BP quote just hurts….

Vivian Jaffe: "Have you ever transcended space and time?"
Albert Markovski: "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about."

by Patrick Reddington on Mar 12, 2010 12:17 PM EST up reply actions

I'm surprised Livo came to camp "not in pitching shape".

Maybe he knew he only had one suiter. Livo will eat innings, that is what the Nats want. I was also surprised that he won’t compete, but rather they are looking at him as a lock for the rotation.

With Dunn and Duncan in camp Whitesell didn’t really have a shot at the team. He is good organizational depth though.

Why not us? Why not now?

by Expos4 on Mar 13, 2010 1:41 AM EST up reply actions