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Thad Weber is a cheap, under control pitcher, with options, who is exceeding expectations and turning himself into a Major League starter. You don't drop a player like that from your 40-Man Roster.

Cutters, curves and sliders = elbow problems 2-seam fastballs, splitters and forkballs = shoulder problems 4-seam fastballs = forearm problems Lets be ahead of the curve and medically prepared.

Same triceps injury that put him on the DL earlier. Same triceps injury that altered his fastball release point and tipped all his pitches after coming off the DL. Same triceps injury that popped up after the only game he released his fastball from the correct slot closer to 2 o'clock. Clearly he came back too soon. Muscles react differently when compensating for forearm tendinitis. Ask Morrow. Dr. Ron Taylor is in his 70s. Maybe time to move on and get a team doctor who treats the tendon problems and not the muscular symptoms for our pitchers.

http://m.ajc.com/news/news/man-critical-after-fall-at-turner-field/nZMkR/ There is the news video from Atlanta Channel 2 Action News within the link. Around the 8 second mark and at the end you can see the railings around the concourse platforms. They are near to waste high to many people. They can't be over 4 feet high and that seems a stretch. They are open air, metal and could easily be soaked by rain coming in on a bit of an angle. I can easily picture someone tall putting both hands on the rail and going right over if he was leaning forward and the rail was wet.

And maybe with higher railings people wouldn't fall off a platform that faced outside the stadium and onto a parking lot. This wasnt a drunk diving for a baseball like an idiot. I don't know the details but it occurred during a 2-hour rain delay. Everything had to be wet and slippery. What a waste.

11.2 innings is a monster sample size. Geez. Rivera just blew 3 saves in a row for the first time in his career. Maybe Casey isn't as mentally prepared trying to finish off meaningless games.

It's far from fine. It's horrible but agreed that public money shouldn't be spent on a new ballpark. There is no extra money and taxes are too high as is, especially business taxes within Toronto.

Cherry picking stats is never effective. Batting .236 with an OPS well over .700. He missed most of Spring Training and then began the season with an injured knee. He's never really gotten into any kind of groove in 2013. The kid is a ball player. Not sure if I should dispute the word mediocre or not because that might be what he is. Aren't most 4th outfielder types? He's decent and has upside and has a hit skill and bat speed but sure, he'd be a very mediocre starting player.

Weak sophomore season so far though. The only improvement is the BB/K rate. Small sample size though.

For Pullar I hope that 0.9 balls in play/week is not the only difference. That said, I like KN. he can play some CF, is good on the corners and his an all energy, always hustle player. He's also got a high baseball IQ. He's not a bad 4th outfielder and can and has gotten hot when called on to fill in for stretches because of injuries.

Aren't you asking the wrong question? You ask what's wrong with him and not how good is he really? The truth is that he's not much better than Jim Negrych. He has more bat speed, a better arm and runs better. He's also 4 years younger. And even with that, he's not much better. Hit skill players become quite good at beating minor league pitchers. They become minor league all-stars. They win minor league games. Dig deeper and something like the speed you speak of becomes an example of what's wrong. He runs well but he's not really that fast. He's quick and that's fine but then you look at his body type and how it projects and realize that he's expected to fill out like Eric Hinske did. Across the board you get a player who is pretty good at a lot of things but only great at hitting line drives off of minor league pitchers. There's no elite bat speed. There's no elite power. There's no indication that he can adjust well to MLB sharp and late break with his swing. I'm not saying that he won't succeed or that he won't be good. I'm saying that without one projectable elite skill, it's hard to become a star. What's the difference between Pillar and Kirk Nieuwenhuis? End of the day, that's a pretty fair question.

Disagree and not trying to be disengeniois here but think you might be used to seeing the weak 2-pitch reliever with sketchy command. As a reliever I was calling for a DFA. I think that he's an awful reliever. As a starter I saw better command and a better mix and a more prepared pitcher. The fastball might be hittable if left wherever but when commanded its darn good. As a starter he showed that command until the innings racked up. As a reliever he was junk- period!

Forget Buck. Ruiz or McCann.

Then you're blind. Pedro was an undersized righty who was thought to be just a reliever by the Dodgers because of his size. He had nasty movement and even good downward plain for his height, which was an anomaly. He was never a bag of balls out of the pen like Rogers and threw harder, with more movement and with nasty offspeed stuff. Rogers is not in the same league.

I actually think that he's decent. He is better as a starter. He prepares better with long toss and a longer warm up and his 3rd pitch has come along fairly well. His command went out the window as he tired. Looks that way anyway. I see him as a 4-5 starter. Jury out on whether that's first or second division but he needs to build stamina and innings moving forward. He's probably about done this year.

Lol. Everyone had to know he was going to hit a dead arm phase as the innings count got higher. I had suggested shutting him down weeks ago. And ya, I get that the club thought he'd be ok until about 110 but clearly that was ambitious.

That's very likely.

Too many innings. He shouldn't be starting anymore this year. Would like to see Weber get a few starts so that he can be better evaluated. By no means call up Stroman. Don't need him taking up a 40-man roster spot during the offseason or wasting an option in April.

Don't know about his style but as a player he was one of the surely, serious types who always seemed kind of angry. A bit of a tough guy.

He managed in the Carolina League with Potomic and in the International League with Syracuse. He won a title with Potomic. He has some MLB level coaching experience too.

Former Blue Jays catcher Randy Knorr is considered to be in the mix for the Nats manager job next season. He is one of only four people getting mention thus far.

I don't think that people mind DeRosa so much. It's more that seeing a young rising player in the role would be nice. I'm not sure that attaching a roster spot to a 24th or 25th man before Spring Training is a very effective way to manage a roster either.

It's all a mess actually. Apparently Erbie Whitt was a better defensive catcher than Alan Ashby.

The flaw is huge and we both know why its flawed. The official scorer decides range and official scorers put a higher expectation on better fielders. The scorer's opinions drive defensive metrics.

Redman, Storey, Weber and Goins will not lose roster spots. Two of them are depth SPs with options and low salaries.