Tuesday, May 21, 2013
WaPo | Ryan Mattheus breaks throwing hand punching a locker, adds to bullpen disarray
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The disarray in the Nationals’ bullpen reached a bizarre and self-inflicted new height Monday night. After the Nationals’ 8-0 loss to the Giants, Manager Davey Johnson revealed that set-up man Ryan Mattheus had broken his right hand Sunday when he punched his locker after a dreadful performance, landing him on the disabled list and leaving the Nationals scrambling for fresh arms.
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1. Shibal posted on March 09, 2013 at 12:19 AM # hit 0 | hit 0Funny, but I only observe the continued beating of this particular deceased horse at BTF. I never hear discussion of it by, you know, Nats fans here in DC. I wonder what that means?
Robert Griffin III has a hangnail?
Well yeah, that was Strasburg's very first time on a mound since he was shut down. So yes, I'd expect the announcers to talk about the innings limit. If Strasburg hadn't pitched and they had still talked about it, or if they are still talking about it the next time the Mets face Strasburg, I'll be more impressed......
For the record, I heard plenty of this chatter in the stands during Game 5 of the NLDS. Since then, yeah, the talk here has been pretty much non-stop RG3 this, RG3 that.
That you need to get out more? But even if it _were_ only being discussed here, why would that matter?
And then, speaking of RGIII, a coach took the opposite tack and it was a complete, ####### disaster, so yeah, we don't really keep bringing it up.
It's reasonable to wonder whether Boras and Strasburg had enough leverage to make that happen, but it seems plausible.
A reliable rumor?
It seems ludicrous to me. The team bends over to satisfy a player who isn't going to be a free agent for half a decade? And are you really clamoring to extend a pitcher starting 5+ years down the line when the pitcher has already suffered one major injury?
Besides the fact that they pulled this 160-IP crap with Zimmermann also, who has a different agent. Zimmermann is not represented by Boras.
Or so he says. That might fall a little short of "reliable" to some folks. Reporters get things wrong all the time.
One start late in march, the starter absolutely gets pasted, and then says it was because of a dead arm.
I remember Glavine always had one of those back in the days.
That sounds like a story. The reporter already has an initial, apparently highly trustworthy source. It shouldn't take much more to have a publishable piece of journalism. But instead the reporter becomes a repository of specialized, insider knowledge and the story (which would embarrass all parties involved) as such remains entirely a rumor for those in the know.
Yes. It is ########. This is their policy, for better or for worse, with seriously injured pitchers.
Having worked now for almost 5 years in a rather large company with many different departments I can safely say that very very few people within an organization ever have the full picture of what is going on in said organization and that a lot of times most people have a bunch of assumptions as to why something or other is happening within the company.
The issue isn't the plan but whether or not they were going to stick to the plan once they realized they were going to contend in 2012 and then go to the playoffs. The supposed rumor isn't disputing a pre-season 160 IP limit but that the Nationals were going to stick to it no matter what. The rumor is stating that the Nationals were going to not shut down Strasburg but that Strasburg did want to be shut down and forced the Nationals to take the heat for shutting him down.
Right. If they weren't a contender, nobody would have cared.
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