BREAK UP THE F-ING NATIONALS

[chaz]

Gio's shortest outing of the season 3.1 innings, YEESH! This is painful. Fuckin RA Dickey.

Looking at the box and Desmond has an AB in the 9th and Zimmerman has only 2 AB the whole game.  I'm worried he got hurt.....

[gaaaaaaaaah]

who, zimmerman? i think davey just took him out because the game was basically out of reach and he wanted derosa to get some at bats before saturdays doubleheader.

[James Ford]

COLLAPSE

[RatBastard]

As a Braves fan, the game yesterday was amazing!

[stevewizzle]

COLLAPSE

trade em all

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Glad to see Zim is shooting fire out of his eyes. Glad we didn't blow the lead yesterday... Bummer that was had to split the series. UGH.

[HoyaSaxa03]

best record in baseball (for a few hours)

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Jayson Werth is less than 2 weeks from coming back according to reports.... Desi is on the 15 day DL, I heard an interview where he was talking about it taking 6 weeks for one of the other guys to come back, I forgot who he said though. He then joked saying "He is older than me though", I think by like a year or two hahaha. I can't wait to HOPEFULLY get a full healthy line up. If only our catchers could stay healthy :\ when is the trade deadline?

[stevewizzle]

Jayson Werth is less than 2 weeks from coming back according to reports.... Desi is on the 15 day DL, I heard an interview where he was talking about it taking 6 weeks for one of the other guys to come back, I forgot who he said though. He then joked saying "He is older than me though", I think by like a year or two hahaha. I can't wait to HOPEFULLY get a full healthy line up. If only our catchers could stay healthy :\ when is the trade deadline?

where does jayson werth bat when he's back?  he's an OBP guy who can swipe bases and create runs.  seems like the #2 slot really is where he belongs, which will bump harper from his spot he's started to get comfortable with.  there's no reason to mess with 3-4-5-6 (zim, morse, laroche, des) - i think harper and werth on the top of that line-up is one scary line-up.

trade deadline is July 31.  almost no chance Nat's make any moves.  catcher needs upgrades, but ramos is the future, and solano returning will be an upgrade if flores continues to struggle.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Jayson Werth is less than 2 weeks from coming back according to reports.... Desi is on the 15 day DL, I heard an interview where he was talking about it taking 6 weeks for one of the other guys to come back, I forgot who he said though. He then joked saying "He is older than me though", I think by like a year or two hahaha. I can't wait to HOPEFULLY get a full healthy line up. If only our catchers could stay healthy :\ when is the trade deadline?

where does jayson werth bat when he's back?  he's an OBP guy who can swipe bases and create runs.  seems like the #2 slot really is where he belongs, which will bump harper from his spot he's started to get comfortable with.  there's no reason to mess with 3-4-5-6 (zim, morse, laroche, des) - i think harper and werth on the top of that line-up is one scary line-up.

trade deadline is July 31.  almost no chance Nat's make any moves.  catcher needs upgrades, but ramos is the future, and solano returning will be an upgrade if flores continues to struggle.

trades can happen after the deadline, players just have to clear waivers first - I think we'll add some middle infield depth, but nothing that couldn't happen after the deadline.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Jayson Werth is less than 2 weeks from coming back according to reports.... Desi is on the 15 day DL, I heard an interview where he was talking about it taking 6 weeks for one of the other guys to come back, I forgot who he said though. He then joked saying "He is older than me though", I think by like a year or two hahaha. I can't wait to HOPEFULLY get a full healthy line up. If only our catchers could stay healthy :\ when is the trade deadline?

where does jayson werth bat when he's back?  he's an OBP guy who can swipe bases and create runs.  seems like the #2 slot really is where he belongs, which will bump harper from his spot he's started to get comfortable with.  there's no reason to mess with 3-4-5-6 (zim, morse, laroche, des) - i think harper and werth on the top of that line-up is one scary line-up.

trade deadline is July 31.  almost no chance Nat's make any moves.  catcher needs upgrades, but ramos is the future, and solano returning will be an upgrade if flores continues to struggle.

Wasn't Werth high in the line-up last year and couldn't pull his weight? Where was he batting earlier in ths year? Wasn't he in the 4-5-6 somewhere? I wouldn't mind him being somewhere in there again, nothing wrong with stacking the line-up. Bam Bam at 2 is good with me. Also, how amazing has the Shark been!? I hope we can keep this win streak up. Fuck the Brewers.

[chaz]

I can't remember where he hit.  He had an off year last year.  Started slow this year but was heating up when he got hurt.  In my house we used to call him 'Werthless', but we'd just taken to calling him 'Werthful' when he went down.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Yeah, when he broke his wrist i was truly bummed, but Ian Desmond, i can't say enough about that guy. Zim has been on FIRE all month, I think this month he's hitting over .380 and has 9 homers I think? Or 10 by now.

[HoyaSaxa03]

werth was all over the batting order last year

http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=1327&position=OF&type=&gds=&gde=&season=2011

mostly in the 5 hole this year before he went down.

[James Ford]

We call him "Hey Dirtbag, get a haircut" in our household.

I can't remember where he hit.  He had an off year last year.  Started slow this year but was heating up when he got hurt.  In my house we used to call him 'Werthless', but we'd just taken to calling him 'Werthful' when he went down.