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Offseason Update: Jan. 5, 2023

Here’s my semi-regular offseason post to let you know the site has not gone dark. There’s just not much news.

It turns out that only two of the four places I went to last summer on my baseball road trip had enough usable pictures, and I’ll be posting these shortly.

I’ve resisted the urge to cover the dumpster dives signs of Michael Chavis and Dominic Smith, as the beat writers and the rest of the Natmosphere have this covered like a blanket over a Junebug. Even if one or both end up in Rochester, this only confirms what we already know:

  • The Nats are content to fill the upper levels with placeholders rather than move up OG’s (as it should be)
  • Mike Rizzo’s directive is to keep payroll as low as possible until the team’s sale (J-101: Report on what they do while quoting what they say; remark on the difference).

Until something else breaks, I return you to your winter loathing.

6 Commments

  1. When your AA team goes 53-85, it’s painfully apparent how hollowed out the organization is, even of half-decent org guys. When you look at who actually played for Wilmington, it seems miraculous that the Blue Rocks managed 65-65. Much of the very good Fredericksburg squad will be moving up to Wilmington, but aside from a couple of key players, there won’t be much flowing upstream to AA and AAA for the start of the season.

  2. Spike lives!

    Agree that the Lerners have decided that no money will be spent while they are the owners.

  3. Was thinking about Cole Henry and did a quick browse to see if there was any information about recovery time. The abstract here includes a good bit of directly related and encouraging info:

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33472488/

    Of course we also know the worst-case scenario since Stras has been living it. But this information seems to indicate that there’s a possibility that Henry could be back pitching in game action by later in the summer, which I thought was unlikely.

  4. Thanks for the intel KW. So in 17 years up till 2017 there were only 27 pitchers who had that surgery.

    And statistically there’s a 74% chance of pitching again. Well so far the Nats are 0 for 2 on that but it means Cole Henry has a chance. He was an elite prospect when he went down.

  5. Just when Luke thought it was safe to go into hibernation, he gets a new name to add to the “dsl arms” section of the watch list. Come on down, Cristian Jimenez! Got to believe we got the equivalent of a 100k international signee for claiming an arm off waivers for a couple of weeks. Guy looks like he’ll at least get a chance to show something at the complex after figuring some things out repeating the dsl as an 18 year old. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=jimene000cri

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