The "Former Nat Watch" Thread (2011)

[The Chief]

The ultimate grade on that trade is still a question mark, and Ben admits as much towards the end of the article.  Personally I think draft picks would've been better, but it's really anybody's guess.

[imref]

Remember Lastings Milledge?  .295/.364/.441, 12 HR, 27 SB at AAA and now a free agent.

He's only 26.

We need a lead-off CF type.  Hmmmmmmm......

[Nathan]

I'd rather re-sign matt stairs to man cf.

[Vega]

I'd rather re-sign matt stairs to man cf.

This post just made me imagine an entire team of Matt Stairses.

[imref]

I'd rather re-sign matt stairs to man cf.

Milledge is one of those guys that probably should have stayed in AAA a few extra years. 

[Galah]

Let me just say, I sure am glad we got rid of Nyjer Morgan this year.
It's been good for his career

[MarquisDeSade]

Let me just say, I sure am glad we got rid of Nyjer Morgan this year.
It's been good for his career

You just wait until Cutter Dykstra gets to the Show!

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Willingham stays, we perhaps do not sign LaRoche, but there was talk that he'd be playing 1st, not LF.  If that had been set up in the Spring that way (not unlikely because Morse had a great ST in LF), and Morse bombs out like he did in April in left, Morse may not ever have gotten the chance to play every day at first.  We loved Nix at the start of the year before the achilles and would have been clamoring for him in LF.  Trading Willingham got us an every day Morse.  Bottom line on that deal.

[houston-nat]

From Twitter:

Greinke on Nyjer: "Everyone else probably likes him 100% of the time. But every now and then he talks too much for me and gets annoying."

[Lintyfresh85]

Who didn't see that coming.

I'm sure Greinke sits around thinking of ways to off Nyjer all the time.

Then again, I'm sure Greinke probably thinks about killing the entire locker room all the time.

[Obed_Marsh]

Greinke on Nyjer: "Everyone else probably likes him 100% of the time. But every now and then he talks too much for me and gets annoying."

I am developing a fondness for his cutting wit.

[The Chief]

I hope this NLCS is one to remember.

[MarquisDeSade]

Go Brew Crew!!!

[Obed_Marsh]

Go schadenfreude! Go little red birds! Win one for the Carper.

[MarquisDeSade]

Go schadenfreude! Go little red birds! Win one for the Carper.

[CALSGR8]

This post just made me imagine an entire team of Matt Stairses.

NIGHTMARE ON HALF STREET! 

 

[PC]

Jim Riggleman will interview to become the Mets' bench coach
By Adam Kilgore

Former Nationals Manager Jim Riggleman will interview Wednesday with the New York Mets to become the team’s bench coach, a person with knowledge of the plans said today. The Mets released bench coach Ken Oberkfell at the end of the season, and Mets Manager Terry Collins called Riggleman last week to gauge his interest in the position.

Riggleman resigned abruptly as the Nationals’ manager over a contract dispute this June immediately following a victory that gave the Nationals their best winning stretch in six years. He served as Nationals manager from the middle of the 2009 season until this year, going 140-172. He came to the Nationals in 2009 as Manny Acta’s bench coach.

Riggleman’s unusual and stunning departure led some to wonder if he would resurface in baseball. It turns out that he might with one of the Nationals’ divisional rivals.

If he gets the job, I say he'll quit before the All-Star break. 

[PowerBoater69]

Jayson Werthless, what a guy, acting like a high school kid pouring beer on guys heads after a win in June, then pouting and undermining the manager who cut short his fun and made the team run infield defensive drills.  The guy doesn't even play in the infield and he's complaining.  Didn't we hear that the guy made up for sucking on the field by being a clubhouse leader?  What a piece of crap Rizzo has saddled us with.

Harris was gone by the time Riggleman resigned this summer, angry that the front office would not exercise his contract option. A Nationals player who was was on the team during that drama said that Riggleman had grown unpopular among some veteran players, and told one story to illustrate the point:

After one victory in June, several Nats players celebrated by pouring beer on one another in the clubhouse. Riggleman yelled at one veteran and ordered the party over, and players thought he had chosen the wrong time to impose discipline.

"It was like all the air went out of the room," the player said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2011/10/10/2011-10-10_ny_mets_to_interview_jim_riggleman_for_role_as_terry_collins_bench_coach_willie_.html

"The most outspoken was Jayson Werth, who hit .232 on the year after signing a seven-year, $126 million deal. Werth was one of the more vocal opponents in criticizing Riggleman for making the team do [fielding] drills.

http://www.federalbaseball.com/2011/10/9/2479227/the-washington-nationals-jayson-werth-and-practice-infield-and

Note: This started out as a post about Riggleman and got side-tracked along the way which is why it is in the Former Nat Watch thread.

[DPMOmaha]

Dang, son.  Dimirti looking slim.  Seriously.  No sarcasm at all.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/dmitri-young-in-venezuelan-winter-league/2011/10/13/gIQAxcsUhL_blog.html

[Lintyfresh85]

Is he back off the sauce?

[spidernat]

Barbecue sauce?

[Lintyfresh85]

Barbecue sauce?

That too.

[DPMOmaha]

To lose 50 pounds, I'd imagine he's cut a lot of sauces out of his life.

[Tyler Durden]

I feel bad for Hairston after all the blunders he had in the field these last few games for the Brewers.  I'd welcome him back here next year.

[spidernat]