{"id":6,"date":"2010-08-08T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2012-09-26T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:08:45","slug":"8610-another-soft-tissue-to-an-underperforming-nats-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Another &#8220;soft tissue&#8221; to an underperforming Nats pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convenient, to say the least, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csnwashington.com\/08\/08\/10\/Nats-Reinstate-Marquis-From-DL-Detwiler-\/landing.html?blockID=285939&amp;feedID=280\">Detwiler has just been put on the 15-day DL<\/a> with a hip strain. \u00a0 This now makes three underperforming Nats pitchers who have suddenly taken ill just as they were set to be replaced\/demoted (Atilano, Martin and now Detwiler).\u00a0 In fairness,<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/nationalsjournal\/2010\/08\/jd_martin_to_have_surgery.html?wprss=nationalsjournal\"> Martin has since had back surgery<\/a> and moved to the 60-day DL and obviously had a serious injury.\u00a0 But Detwiler?\u00a0 Seems like coincident timing.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be complaining, since it makes a tough decision the Nats were possibly to face a bit easier.\u00a0 Marquis comes off the DL and goes today for the first time since april.<\/p>\n<p>Current Rotation: Livan, Marquis, Strasburg, Olsen and Lannan.<\/p>\n<p>on the DL: Mock, Martin, Detwiler and Atilano<\/p>\n<p>in the minors and coming soon: Zimmermann and Maya.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll guess the next thing to happen will be Olsen and Lannan making way for the Zimmermann and Maya (or perhaps Strasburg reaching an innings limit and Lannan\u00a0 staying in the rotation).\u00a0 Olsen gets significant bonuses right now for each additional start (to the tune of $250k for his next couple starts, then $100k there after for the rest of the season).\u00a0 Not that I think the Nats are cheap, but i&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll find some justification for limiting his starts and their payroll outlay.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, they&#8217;re getting closer to the 2011 rotation they&#8217;d probably like to see out on the field (Strasburg, Zimmermann, Marquis, Maya and Lannan).\u00a0 And we all think this would be a pretty good rotation.\u00a0 Spring training 2011 can&#8217;t come soon enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convenient, to say the least, that Detwiler has just been put on the 15-day DL with a hip strain. \u00a0 This now makes three underperforming Nats pitchers who have suddenly taken ill just as they were set to be replaced\/demoted (Atilano, Martin and now Detwiler).\u00a0 In fairness, Martin has since had back surgery and moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,42,99,39,43,41,74,51,819,38,883],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-garrett-mock","tag-jason-marquis","tag-jd-martin","tag-john-lannan","tag-jordan-zimmermann","tag-livan-hernandez","tag-luis-atilano","tag-ross-detwiler","tag-scott-olsen","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-yunesky-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}