No comments on Olsen, Dan?
So - what salaries do we project for the two new Nats?

Bold projections.

Probably my most useful post ever

That's a lot of </b>bolding...

Perhaps Guzman still played well because he's a see ball-hit ball player that Lenny Harris couldn't screw up?

I understand why career pinch-hitters like Lenny Harris get hitting coach jobs - but it would seem that such career paths don't usually turn out well. I'm thinking of Richie Hebner and Greg Gross among others.

I would think that the fundamental approach of a pinch-hitter - perhaps a role where a hacker of the Harris/Hebner/Gross type actually does make sense - wouldn't be well-suited to lineup and roster as a whole.

"Luis Oforthreevas"

Argh, it burns.

At one time Hebner had the best plate discipline of anyone on the Pirates.

Willingham could certainly act like a ballplayer.

Al Smith (the baseball player)

For a second, I thought Willingham was being projected as a darkhorse candidate against David Patterson in 2010.

So in retrospect, I'd say the Nationals won this trade.

In all fairness, this was a pre-arbitration salary dump. The Marlins weren't trying to win.