On a somewhat related note, I'd love to hear what Mark or Ted have to say about all this.
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Owner Ted Lerner, one person familiar with the negotiations said, was heavily involved in bringing Soriano to Washington. The sides reached a two-year, $28 million contract, which makes Soriano the highest-paid reliever in baseball during the 2013 season. The contract also includes a $14 million option for 2015 that will vest if Soriano finished 120 games combined over the 2013 and 2014 seasons."
Ted Lerner will be 89 years old in 2015. Ted Lerner was determined after 2012 that the Nationals would not be knocked out of the playoffs again by another Drew Storen meltdown. Lerner HAS to be thinking about what he should do now that we've been bounced out early again in 2014.
My opinion: I think Matt Williams has to admit that he made major mistakes in the playoffs, to convince Ted Lerner that they won't be repeated in another playoff appearance. But Williams kept insisting that Aaron Barrett was "our 7th inning guy", even though Drew Storen held that job for most of the season. (Barrett was sent back down to the minors for much of the season.) If Matt Williams cannot swallow his pride and take major responsibility for the loss, he could be gone, at Lerner's insistence.
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