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  1. Sammy Sofa
    No kidding.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Says the guy who started this page with a righteous davearm2 post.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yuuuuuuup.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    of course they have a CHANCE to win, but right now, they ARE winning. This would be like the Bears winning the division, but deciding that Cutler or Forte had to be protected for the future, so they'll just put the backup in for the playoffs Yikes.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Actually, it makes plenty sense. The FO recognizes the flaws that guys like Jackson and Vitters have and see this season as basically like Rizzo last year; a chance to hopefully better identify what they need to work on so they have the bets chance to succeed. At the same time they're probably playing the game of trying not to completely crush these guys by throwing them out there every single game when they're likely to just fail. Try to focus on favorable matchups as much as possible and see if you can't both work on things and build their confidence. Just running them out there as much as possible isn't necessarily the best option; at some point it's just meatball-ish, "rub some dirt on it" garbage. I mean, really, do you seriously think this FO is playing things like Hendry or Dusty?
  6. Sammy Sofa
    He threw 24 inning last year. What should be his inning limit? As you say, every opportunity to compete is valuable but your citing the 2003 Cubs is flawed since the reckless use of Prior and Wood - similar to what you want the Nationals to do with Strasburg - torpedoed future Cubs teams' chances of competing in future years. I don't want them to have Strasburg throw 150 pitches every outing. I also don't want them to say "welp, we have the best record in baseball but we might win the WS in 3 or 4 years, so shut er' down, boys!" They're not shutting him down because they might win the World Series in 3-4 years. They're shutting him down because they want Strasburg healthy and pitching 200 innings in 3-4 years. which will be great if they're in 3rd place, right? Why do you think it's so likely they won't be competing again next year?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Any comparisons to the 2003 Cubs grow even more ridiculous when you compare the ages of the guys getting the most playing time on the 2012 Nats to the old as [expletive] corpses mostly playing for the Cubs in 2003. The Nats are doing this with a younger team and with a guy like Harper playing well below his potential and in a pretty crappy division; they'd be foolish to act like this is likely to be their only shot.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    That's a really dense way to run a baseball team. It's a very Dusty way to run a baseball team.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    I support the Nationals shutting him down, but I can see the other side of the argument. There's really no predicting the future. We could have made the same argument about the 2003 Cubs (although I would argue a lot of the future developments had to do with the anti-Nationals treatment of our young pitchers). And Strasburg's mechanics are apparently so terrible, he's likely to have a short shelf life as it is. All they have to do is make the playoffs and they have a shot, and now they have even more of a chance to make the playoffs with the second WC added.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2003/0707_large.jpg Prior's workload that season basically makes my point for me. Plus Wood was already damaged goods at that point.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    He's a young pitcher coming back from major surgery (and yes, it's still that despite how often it's done and how often it's successful). They're a team with a lot of money that have an incredible anchor for the future in Strasburg and Harper. To think that this is likely their only shot over the course of having those two seems like it would lead to a foolhardy course of action.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Bolt is lord.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, I thought the same thing when I saw Rizzo forget how many outs there were. Knew he wouldn't get any heat for it. Yup. Sad, but totally expected.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    It can.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    "Rounded profile." ZING.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    *Tearful applause*
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Holy Christ, that is some fatness.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Adam Dunn was a horrendous and completely unacceptable OFer, so God only knows what the [expletive] you're talking about. What I'm talking about is that as horrendous his OF defense was, his bat was valuable enough that they were willing to accept it in order to get it in the lineup, so assuming he continues to develope as the beast that he is early on, and assuming that Rizzo is our long term 1B, is giving Vogelbach some OF reps an option? Just because a team was stupid enough to be "willing to accept it" doesn't mean it was a good decision. Dunn basically annihilated his WAR during his peak years because of how bad his defense was.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Man, I really cannot wait for it to happen. It's such a disadvantage for team construct in the NL.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Is it possible to respect Tim's analysis as well as the analysis of those on the other side? Tim brings up very good points, so it's not just one of the usual doom and gloomers. I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion, but that doesn't mean that the analysis should be dismissed. Didn't say it shouldn't be dismissed; just annoyed by your declaration that everything in the thread is "depressing." It's just seemingly the umpteenth example of you posting without reading everything.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Adam Dunn was a horrendous and completely unacceptable OFer, so God only knows what the [expletive] you're talking about.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Really? Unless you and WSR are only reading Tim's posts I'm not sure how you're coming to your conclusions.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Either.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    You don't think it was mentioned to him in ST? Really? I have no idea; I'm simply presenting my reasoning as to why I think he's put up the performance he has this year vs. the last two seasons. I'm still curious as to what you think the reason(s) might be instead of just hearing yet again about how his projections are going to take a hit if he doesn't turn it around.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    What? No.
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