Tuesday, May 21, 2013
WaPo | Ryan Mattheus breaks throwing hand punching a locker, adds to bullpen disarray
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posted 3 hours ago by Coot Veal and Cot Deal make $486 every day to dumbness, nationals
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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 2 3 4Sure, and we have every right to root against them b/c of their past lucky World Series wins.
That the Rizzo ever had or said they had a 160 inning limit lie.
The there is no future benefit to limiting Strasburg's innings lie. It may be small, but it's ludicrous to think it's zero.
The Yocam saying he wasn't involved in the decision lie.
The lie there is no significant correlation between innings counts and injury rates, that uses studies on healthy pitchers instead of TJ surgery recovering pitchers that Rizzo specifically said he studied.
The lie that the Nats not pitching their 3rd best starter in the playoffs makes any sort of big difference, esp. he was barely more valuable than their 4th best starter, and was clearly running out of gas at season's end.
The lie that the Nats could simply rejigger their rotation to put a replacement level starter in every sunday once they "knew" they are making a playoff run in order to rest Strasburg. That's right, you want to make the playoffs so you decide to pitch a terrible starter every sunday to HELP.
The lie that the Nats could have just shut down Strasburg and rested him at any time, WHILE TRYING TO WIN THE EAST AND MAKE THE PLAYOFFS, and restarted him again at any time without any significant increase in injury risk, or more importantly, any significant risk he'd have a series of bad starts until he gets back into form.
The lie that the Nats could have had Strasburg skip the first two months of the season so they'd be sure to have him for the playoffs, when they didn't even know if they'd be competitive, and if they didn't make the playoffs, he'd end up only pitching 120 innings and not ramping to full use next year.
The lie that Rizzo hasn't already done this with Zimmerman, and been hugely successful with the strategy.
And the lie that the Zimmerman experience doesn't mean it's likely Strasburg will be a far better and more valuable pitcher next year ready to pitch deep into the playoffs.
The Rizzo lied, lie.
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