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1. Coot Veal and Cot Deal make $486 every day Posted: April 05, 2012 at 12:46 PM (#4097933)They need a more experienced skipper with a reputation for handling players...
It appeared to be an issue of Lannan having options left and guys like Detwiler and others not. The Nats rotation right now is Strasburg, Gio, Zimmerman, Edwin Jackson and then Detwiler or Lannan until Wang is back.
Where does it say that are refusing to trade him?
Elsewhere: Nationals intend to keep John Lannan after Lannan asks for a trade
And liking Wang better than either of them. When he comes back, the #5 guy is going to be bumped to the bullpen, and the Nats apparently don't think Lannan is all that good in that role, so they want to see what Detwiler can do rather than lose him. Lannan could still be back fairly quickly if Detwiler bombs or Wang comes up lame yet again.
Fine, but you're feeding him and taking him for walks.
Which is odd. If you don't like Lannan for his peripherals, Wang's the poster boy for outpitching peripherals.
I guess they were really impressed with that 3.6 K/9 Wang put up for them last year.
They're paying quite a bit for that privilege with a $5M salary ($1.5M?). I assume he would get another year of arbitration too.
Not really. Peripherls in the DIPs sense are k/9, bb/9 and HR/9, before his arm fell off both his walk and HR rates were very good, more than enough to offset his low K rate.
From 2005 to 2008, 142 pitchers had 360+IP
Wang's HR/9 of 0.49 was the best of all 142 (right ahead of Lincecum, Clemens and Webb,
his bb rate of 2.55 was 47th, well better than average
And even shittier to crap all over him in the media for an entire season before finally trading him (right, Kevin Slowey?).
Same thing happened to J.J. Hardy in 2009. I believe the union threatened action, but I think as long as there's even the flimsiest of a performance-based explanation there's not really anything they can do.
Yeah, and it has been FOUR YEARS since he was that guy.
In 2009 he was literally the worst SP ever. In 2010 he didn't pitch at all. In 2011 he was horrible: 3.6 K/9, 1.8 BB/9, 1.16 HR/9 in 62.1 IP.
Relying on Wang to be even garden variety terrible is a huge stretch.
Yeah, although this one is hard to justify from a performance base.
And pretty clueless as to what the Nats think they're accomplishing here As noted, you don't save a rotation spot for Wang, especially not an injured Wang (ouch!) Detwiler (minor-league WHIP>1.5) is, at best, a cheaper version of Lannan but they're paying Lannan anyway.
I suspect it will all be solved soon anyway, whether by trade, injury or Detwiler giving up 10 runs in his first start.
I have a hard time believing that rumor would ever come to fruition -- it makes no sense for the Cubs... Byrd ought to have at least marginal value - he's not bringing an A prospect back, but I would think they could get something more interesting than a 29 yo innings eater who makes 5 million and has unimpressive peripherals in return.
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