Please, not another guy named Wily Willie Willy.
As you turn your thoughts to next season in an attempt to distract from the 2008 carnage, you’re wondering what (if anything) the Lerner Family will do in the offseason to improve their Major League product while waiting for things to develop down on the farm, right? They need to do something, right? Add a top of the rotation starter? A couple of big bats? Bullpen help? Certainly not on your list: a super fast, slap hitting, low OBP centerfielder, right? Definitely not part of the plan (lowercase ‘p’), right? Right? Then why on earth would the Nationals be interested in trading for Willy Taveras? From today’s Denver Post, Colorado has been looking to move Willy T, since they’ve got depth in center, and, go figure, the Nationals "have interest":
The Washington Nationals have interest and could become a fit this offseason if they move Lastings Milledge out of a center field, according to a major league source.
(AP Photo by Paul Beaty)
I wonder what it will feel like to root for this franchise when it doesn't have a GM who wants to accumulate all the Nook Logans and Junior Spiveys of the world.
I can't wait to find out.
Posted by: Hendo | August 21, 2008 at 03:08 PM
Holy CRAP. Could we please try to get some guys who hit freakin' home runs?
The state of the Nats' bench actually makes me miss Daryl Ward.
Posted by: Carl | August 21, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Hendo, you'll probably find out soon enough...
I'm baffled that they would (or Jimbo would?) have interest in adding a player like Willy T... Just seems like the last sort of piece the team needs to be looking to add in the offseason. Granted, it's one line from an unnamed major league source, but it makes you scratch your head.
Posted by: The Nationals Enquirer | August 21, 2008 at 03:22 PM
Tracy Ringoldsby of the Dever Post has been reporting for weeks this unnamed baseball source has also said the Nats are grooming Rizzo for the GM job, depsite no one in the DC press having reported it. take this with a grain of salt. why is it the Denver Post supposedly knows more than the DC media. and who is this unnamed baseball source giving Tracy Ringoldsby his info?
Posted by: Dave at Bottomfeeder Baseball | August 21, 2008 at 05:12 PM
How much trouble would it have saved the Nats if in March 2005 they just said "Endy, you're batting 8th, hitting .260 with no power and no OBP, and giving us good fielding for as long as you can."
Posted by: harper | August 21, 2008 at 07:25 PM
Dave, it IS interesting that the Post (Denver, not Wash) seems more interested in floating Nationals-related rumors out there than any outlet in the DC-media. In this case, it was a fellow named Troy E. Renck, not Ringolsby...but we'll still take it with that grain of salt. Who knows, though? Maybe Ringolsby et. al. have someone on the inside with the Nats...
Posted by: The Nationals Enquirer | August 21, 2008 at 07:35 PM
harper...yeah, I don't know, I was always more of a Brandon Watson guy, myself...
Posted by: The Nationals Enquirer | August 21, 2008 at 07:36 PM
Hello! Don't forget about me.
Posted by: Nook Logan | August 21, 2008 at 09:19 PM