{"id":8201,"date":"2013-12-05T09:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2013-12-06T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:01:46","slug":"nats-player-option-status-for-2013-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8201","title":{"rendered":"Nats Player Option status for 2013-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a moment to update my own little internal spreadsheet that tracks Player Options for the Nationals, now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/compensation\/cots\/national-league\/washington-nationals\/\">Cots&#8217; site<\/a> has updated service time numbers for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>This spreadsheet is in <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0Aoe2S6_m1TendE9KMTl2cm5fM2EzSzFvYmhZRW5WbkE&amp;usp=sharing\">Google Docs at this link<\/a>, as well as being in the &#8220;NatsArm Creations list along the right hand side of the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Springfieldfan also maintains an options page on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AmkEIm1TLiXQdHExYldZVUZJZk9uckFjeEVCSmR5Umc&amp;hl=en#gid=26\">Big Board<\/a>\u00a0with a bit more detail for other players in our system outside of the 40-man players that i&#8217;ve focused on.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting Options developments for 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First and foremost, 40-man member\u00a0<strong>Corey Brown<\/strong> exhaused his 3rd and last option in 2013. \u00a0Does anyone think he&#8217;s going to be on next year&#8217;s 25-man roster as a bench player? \u00a0 Ironically the team needs lefty power off the bench, and Brown is a lefty with two straight power-filled seasons in AAA. \u00a0But somehow me-thinks he&#8217;s going to lose out on this competition and faces a DFA sometime between now and April 1st 2014. \u00a0He&#8217;s cleared waivers before and stayed in the organization, but with more teams purposely tanking right now I wonder if he&#8217;ll survive another exposure to waivers.<\/li>\n<li>A reminder that\u00a0<strong>Ross Detwiler<\/strong>\u00a0remains out of options, though the Nats have shown that limitation is easily worked around by virtue of &#8220;soft tissue&#8221; D\/L trips as needed. \u00a0Nonetheless, if Detwiler is healthy in spring training, he&#8217;s either your 5th starter, a lefty in the pen, or facing a transaction. \u00a0It seems like we have this conversation every spring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Denard Span<\/strong> has achieved 5 years of cumulative service time, meaning he can refuse an option to the minors. \u00a0Not that he&#8217;s in grave jeopardy of such a thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bulk of the team remains very options-flexible, with 30 of the 39 guys on the current 40-man roster capable of being sent down if needed. \u00a0This proved to be very handy last year when a number of guys under-performed, and may prove to be handy this year.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, Spring Training 2015 is going to be a big options showdown for a lot of guys on this team; I count at least four guys and perhaps more who are almost guaranteed to use their last options in 2014. \u00a0But this is a topic for a post a \u00a0year from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a moment to update my own little internal spreadsheet that tracks Player Options for the Nationals, now that Cots&#8217; site has updated service time numbers for 2013. This spreadsheet is in Google Docs at this link, as well as being in the &#8220;NatsArm Creations list along the right hand side of the blog. 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