tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post6406224025009091950..comments2024-03-28T10:50:33.234-07:00Comments on Nationals Baseball: Injury Update! Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07738813756060133236noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-68834626802593990262018-07-26T11:52:36.099-07:002018-07-26T11:52:36.099-07:00Great post
Stay In Shape While InjuredGreat post<br /><br /><a href="https://khohealth.com/stay-in-shape-while-injured/" rel="nofollow">Stay In Shape While Injured</a>Ahne SDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03661027052350232164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-340252610256781392018-04-25T06:11:24.862-07:002018-04-25T06:11:24.862-07:00Mike here--problems with my Google account, so pos...Mike here--problems with my Google account, so posting "anonymously." I agree with Jay. Last year a very good Astros team became positively overwhelming by adding a Cy Young quality starter in Verlander. It helped them for the post-season and this year as well. A huge acquisition, and then they went right back out and got ANOTHER excellent starter in Cole. I felt the Nats needed to do something like that--I wanted them to really load up for a big push this year, instead of assuming they had it made already. I would have gone after Arrieta and kept Albers and also done something at catcher. Standing pat assumes that the other teams will not progress and that no one on the Nats will regress. But we've seen a worse case scenario with the Mets, Braves, and Phillies improving a lot, Taylor regressing, Eaton and Murphy not being ready, Zimmerman throwing away almost three weeks by not being ready for game conditions with his silly spring training, the BP being thinner than thought (esp. without a relatively cheap Albers not coming back), and the black hole at catcher continuing to hurt. Trea Turner is not turning out to be a superstar (he may still be, but he isn't close yet, so the idea that the team improves just from having him be a year older, has not panned out). Rendon's injury hurts, too. Robles isn't available to add a spark. The team is looking fragile and undisciplined at times. Dusty probably would have won two more games than Martinez at this point, maybe three. And fifth starter? Still a work in progress; but if they had added a legit #3 starter instead of patching at #5, then it's a great rotation, instead of a good one with a big hole.<br /><br />The Lerners hate adding payroll during the season, but to right the ship and progress in post-season, they probably have to make a big acquisition of some sort--a Cespedes or a Verlander--at the trade deadline. Right now, this feels worse than 2015, because we have three teams to deal with. I doubt all three will be there in September, but I bet two of them are. <br /><br />And having a rookie manager having to deal with all this is not optimal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-69594967669530875852018-04-25T05:30:58.812-07:002018-04-25T05:30:58.812-07:00Don't the Lerners get most of the blame here? ...Don't the Lerners get most of the blame here? They fired Dusty Baker to bring in a guy that has never managed. They treated the NL East division title like it was a forgone conclusion and didn't improve the team in any appreciable way. The "window" may well have closed a year early bc of it.Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-70728021206069031912018-04-25T04:54:59.470-07:002018-04-25T04:54:59.470-07:00It's frickin 2015 againIt's frickin 2015 againBjd1207https://www.blogger.com/profile/08595153543505790679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-41914266149836102322018-04-24T13:38:58.496-07:002018-04-24T13:38:58.496-07:00I would like to see the Nats promote Yadiel Hernan...I would like to see the Nats promote Yadiel Hernandez. I'm not sure why others are ahead of him in line. Maybe he's a poor fielder, I don't know, but they had Matt Adams in left last night.sircnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-58190782313421178822018-04-24T10:44:05.909-07:002018-04-24T10:44:05.909-07:00Huzzah - A person's music taste can vary great...Huzzah - A person's music taste can vary greatly. You might think as a soulless automaton I like electronic music but I listen almost exclusively to dogs barking the hits. <br /><br />Steven - well I think the team thinks he has talent to help if healthy andyes, given the $, wanted one more year of trying but at this point there isn't any harm in 60 day DLing him so it's kind of moot now. <br /><br />Jedge - I can dig into it - but last I remember it was kind of a "not good - but could have been terrible" situation where Robles is still going to be out a couple months. <br /><br />blovy8 - I know he's just going to be thrown out there to suck up innings until he's DFAd again or a miracle happens but there has to be a better option out there<br /><br />Anon @ 8:53 - I don't know if you can and I think the combined effect of a team toning down hustle would be negative. You might save a couple injuries but you are probably giving up one of your own hits in a game, not taking multiple extra bases, allowing a couple extra hits for the other side. It's a strategy for a team who can safely win 90% of the games they would going all out and I don't think the Nats have that cushion this year. <br /><br />I think the crux would be you don't know who is going to get injured (Eaton, Robles - Bad! Goodwin - Eh!) and you are going to have some injuries during normal play as well. So I'd imagine if every team tried this and you compared it to some alternate "normal play" dimension, like 5 teams would be helped a lot 20 teams would see almost no change and 5 teams would actually lose a bunch more. Where would the Nats fall? I don't know. Not enough here to take that risk. <br /><br />(And I haven't even gotten into Hustle's talk which represents the media firestorm that would surround a not hustling team. They'd better win in that case) <br />Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738813756060133236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-44795167916668037382018-04-24T10:41:39.000-07:002018-04-24T10:41:39.000-07:00Sammy Sosa once went on the DL for sneezing. Sprai...Sammy Sosa once went on the DL for sneezing. Sprained a ligament in his lower back. Approximately two violent sneezes, to be exact, which brought on back spasms. <br /><br />Some things are just unpredictable and to play the game your body encased in bubble wrap won't help anyone.<br /><br />Also, doesn't all this injury stuff just make you think Cal's record is all the more impressive?Ole PBNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-45663090767288479722018-04-24T10:27:19.532-07:002018-04-24T10:27:19.532-07:00@Anon
A lot of what people love about MLB are hus...@Anon<br /><br />A lot of what people love about MLB are hustle plays. There's a lot of standing around and then, bang - hustle. Bang bang - hustle plus. Take away the hustle and it's not much more than a corporate softball league with a few guys that can mash the ball. I don't want that.Chuck Hustlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-51114976902557764102018-04-24T09:19:25.589-07:002018-04-24T09:19:25.589-07:00@Anon
There's no real way of knowing that thr...@Anon<br /><br />There's no real way of knowing that threshold, though. Much of the "hustle" in baseball is bang-bang, split-decision type stuff. Vast majority of the time, diving for a ball won't risk injury since your taught how to dive properly in little league. Vast majority of the time, lunging for a base won't result in injury because you have professional athletes who are conditioned for that. Vast majority of the time, a "hustle" play is just going to make you tired.<br /><br />Teaching players to not go all out will hurt the team on the whole far more than it would help them. Especially since so much of it is instinctualFriesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-38324962876090007262018-04-24T08:53:37.949-07:002018-04-24T08:53:37.949-07:00Goodwin hurt his wrist diving for a ball. Robles ...Goodwin hurt his wrist diving for a ball. Robles hurt his shoulder (or wrist, can't recall) diving for a ball.<br /><br />Eaton originally hurt his ankle on a bang bang play to first last season. Eaton aggravated the ankle on a slide this season. <br /><br />Harper hurt himself on a bang bang play to first last season. He wasn't out long but he wasn't at 100% in the post season. <br /><br />The Nats didn't benefit from Goodwin and Roble's dives. The players saved a hit but than lost the player for multiple games. Given Eaton's vulnerable ankle at the time, the idea of him sliding seems ridiculously risky. <br /><br />Radical suggestion, thinking out loud, would teams be better off if the players toned down the hustle. You give up short term benefit, preventing a hit (if on defense) or out (if on offense), but you preserve player health.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-31179141808239873482018-04-24T08:24:03.979-07:002018-04-24T08:24:03.979-07:00How about the Yankees taking on Cole? That might b...How about the Yankees taking on Cole? That might be good for mlb tv ratings because as a mop-up guy he can make those 8-1 games into 8-5 really quick!blovy8https://www.blogger.com/profile/06888192019412533415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-44356636504000311292018-04-24T07:29:33.477-07:002018-04-24T07:29:33.477-07:00Hey Harper - Awesome write-up and thanks for the u...Hey Harper - Awesome write-up and thanks for the updates. Can you do the same analysis for Robles? Him being hurt right now when he most certainly would be getting daily play in the Majors is a real dent on his development that no one seems to be talking about...Edgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703695154813763356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-7775786646041425462018-04-24T07:29:12.843-07:002018-04-24T07:29:12.843-07:00I thought given the last two years of arms trouble...I thought given the last two years of arms troubles, Nats should have parted ways with Kelley. Unreliable injury guy that can and has hurt the team - Sunday being just the latest example. That's all on management style and not parting ways with players they owe money, I think. Stevennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207681.post-2043210081640066362018-04-24T07:07:43.491-07:002018-04-24T07:07:43.491-07:00Good post, I was checking RotoWorld this morning a...Good post, I was checking RotoWorld this morning and got way less info.<br /><br />In other news in the ESPN article today about “clubhouse DJs” around the mlb, the author mentioned that Strasburg outfitted the Nats locker room with its stereo! Strasburg?! Really?! I never imagined him as a big music guy. Thought of him as more of a silence guy, at most ambient sound playlists.Huzzah!https://www.blogger.com/profile/03728993885000677878noreply@blogger.com