This is your Nationals Stats, News, Rumors, and Commentary Roundup for the Morning of August 04, 2021.
A Look at Nationals Pitchers’ Vertical Movement on Pitches
Now onto the News, Rumors, and Commentary…
“Mike Rizzo could legitimately decide to field an entire team of players that are already under team control in 2022. 2023 and Beyond If the baseball gods are nice and this team is blessed with some reasonable health we could go into 2023 with a starting rotation of Josiah Gray, Cade Cavalli, Jackson Rutledge, Stephen Strasburg and Patrick Corbin. It just does not make sense and in his most recent interview, Rizzo said that his plan involves signing impactful players when the young promising prospects are ready to contribute as well. I doubt this is what Mike Rizzo decides to field on Opening Day and really that is not the most interesting part.”
““He was great. Klobosits pitched at Single-A Hagerstown and Potomac in 2019 and was with the team in Spring Training in Jupiter in case the Nationals needed an extra arm against the Cardinals in the first spring game. “He started out at Double-A, was doing really well, went to Triple-A and pitched really well,” Davey Martinez said before Klobosits made his MLB debut on July 30th. “He went through an injury and rehab from that.”
“Giving up home runs hasn’t been uncommon for Corbin this season. Both Corbin and Martinez said it was the best the pitch had looked and felt all season. Corbin has worked on pitching with his legs more, which he feels has made him inconsistent throughout the season. Corbin finished the remainder of the seventh inning unscathed, leaving his team to attempt to come back from a four-run deficit.”
“19, from OAK) While the Rangers did get a pair of prospects from the Phillies in the Kyle Gibson deal (along with not-long-ago top prospect Spencer Howard), they mostly make this list because of the Joey Gallo deal with the Yankees. It obviously started with having talents like Max Scherzer and Trea Turner on the block, with Scherzer being a rental and Turner still having one, not inexpensive, year of control, but they were able to maximize it by not only getting two Top 100 prospects in Keibert Ruiz and Josiah Gray, but both are also ready to contribute in the big leagues. They didn’t get any Top 100 types, but they did get four new members of their Top 30. 1, from LAD); Josiah Gray, RHP (No.”
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