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Final Winter League Update

Winter Baseball Update
With the close of the Venezuelan Winter League last night, here’s the last look at how players in the Nationals organization did in the 2014-15 Winter Leagues.

BATTERS

PLAYER LG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG OBP SLG SB
Tyler Moore DWL 22 77 19 23 4 0 6 17 18 20 .299 .429 .584 2
Emmanuel Burriss DWL 17 55 4 16 4 1 0 4 2 6 .291 .350 .400 1
Estarlin Martinez DWL 2 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .143 .250 .143 0
Wilman Rodriguez DWL 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .500 .500 .500 0
Jose Lozada PWL 29 99 11 23 8 0 2 7 5 23 .229 .295 .429 0
Sandy Leon VWL 46 147 13 31 8 1 2 14 17 27 .211 .290 .320 1
Mario Lisson VWL 32 112 11 26 5 1 4 13 18 20 .232 .372 .402 2
Wilson Ramos VWL 18 67 4 15 2 0 1 6 2 17 .224 .257 .299 0
Adrian Sanchez VWL 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 .000 .000 .000 0

PITCHERS

PLAYER LG W L SV ERA G GS IP H R ER HR BB SO WHIP
Richard Bleier DWL 1 3 0 5.23 7 4 20⅔ 26 14 12 2 4 12 1.45
Manny Delcarmen DWL 1 0 0 8.71 14 0 10⅓ 15 10 10 2 6 7 2.03
Gilberto Mendez DWL 0 0 0 0.00 3 0 2⅔ 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Rafael Martin MWL 1 0 10 1.90 24 0 23⅔ 22 8 5 1 4 22 1.10
Jose Lozada PWL 0 0 0 0.00 1 0 0⅔ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Paolo Espino VWL 3 0 0 3.74 8 8 33⅔ 34 14 14 3 11 34 1.34
Mitch Lively VWL 1 2 0 3.38 6 2 18⅔ 21 8 7 2 5 18 1.39
David Ramos VWL 0 1 0 2.95 6 0 18⅓ 19 6 6 0 6 7 1.36


As usual in early January, there’s very little to report on the minor-league front. Earlier this week, the Nationals signed another veteran catcher: 33-year-old Omir Santos, who appeared in just 11 games last summer with Pittsburgh’s AAA affiliate due to a concussion and an ankle injury. Santos was orignally drafted by the Yankees in 2001, but made his MLB with Orioles in 2008. Since filling in for former Nats catcher Brian Schneider for 96 games with the Mets in 2009, Santos has played sparingly — just 226 games across five seasons for the Mets, Tigers, Rockies, Indians, and Pirates, with only 15 games played at the MLB level (14 for Detroit in 2011 and 2012, one for Cleveland in 2013).

11 Commments

  1. Rather cheered to see Moore mashing in the Venezuelan Winter League, and I hope that means he’ll either earn the trade or full year in DC on the bench that he seems worthy of as a presently AAAA player. He’s a handled tough professional situation the past couple years with grace following his outstanding 2012, and I greatly appreciate WaPo’s article on his life as a 26th man. He, like many readers of this site, is imminently deserving of status as a 22-25th man and right handed pinch hitter with thump if he can put together the spring and early season successful ABs to warrant a full year roster spot. Getting to the point where he needs that service time and MLB salary to keep the dream going and keep his family provided for. Regardless, if he’s got nothing else in MLB but a 2012 playoff GW-RBI, he can certainly tell his grandkids he his MLB dream come true.

    Likewise, I’m cheered to see Manny Burriss have a solid winter and I hope this foretells a solid spring and DC roster spot for the native as well. Thankfully, #nats15 isn’t the football team and won’t promote him to try to market him locally and use him to sell a few more tickets. Believe local bias might have led to the present status of present disappointment on Otto Porter, Jr. on the Wizards roster.

      1. You got me on this one, Jeff. Why do you want me to listen to this? Late Wayne and late Herbie ain’t their Blue Note stuff so I tend not to listen to them but so much, although I would consider seeing either of their present day groups live despite the likely high freight.

  3. Gotta give ‘beer league’ Martin credit. He keeps plugging away, doing his thing. At some point somebody somewhere has to give him his cup of coffee.

    2. I’m with you on this. Martin is a testimony of persistence and deserves a late season call up for somebody so that he can be recorded in baseball-reference for eternity, the goal of everybody who wears the cleats! Bet when The Babe got called he knew that he’d have the satisfaction of knowing he’d be in baseball-reference.com and that some Yankees fan would pay to sponsor his page.

  4. Crew, who thinks daubach will ease
    Glut of Senators infielders by playing Hague
    And Martinson in outfield or 3 b more?!?

    1. I could see them at 3B with a willingness to sacrifice power at the hot corner and wins in the standings for the development of AAA. On the outfield, though, with Goodwin and Taylor and maybe Kobernus available (don’t know third OF at moment) it seems like there won’t be ABs to go around past the guys who need the development. Getting Goodwin and Taylor right seem to me be two of the highest organizational priorities for the organization. We need one of the two to be Span’s replacement at low cost and one of the two to be a trade worthy asset to ideally add additional higher upside prospects in a Souza-esque deal.

  5. souldrummer. the river -take on Joni Mitchell stuff is neat.
    I say add another outfielder with Werth on the shelf. for what its werth. kkkk

    1. Jeff, Thanks for your advice on the Joni Mitchell stuff. I’ll be honoring you by adding a Jeff from Nats Prospects playlist on my Spotify, but don’t get to puffed up because sometimes it can take me an awful long time to get around to actually to listening to the stuff I put on playlists.

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