(AP Photo. Craig Stammen pretty much locked up the final open spot in the Nationals rotation Tuesday night simply by not being Scott Olsen.)
...Olsen, it isn't.
"Anything that looks like progress is what we're looking for at this point."
(Jim Riggleman, via Nats Insider, 3/23/2010)
Progress? Make that, "anything that LOOKS like progress"? That's all "we're" looking for with less than two weeks to go until Opening Day? God help us.
"I feel like I'm close, if I'm not there already."
(Scott Olsen, via Nationals Journal, 3/23/2010)
The numbers don't lie. Scott Olsen's second-to-last Spring Training audition looks like this: 6 R, 12 H, 1 BB, 2 HR, in 4 1/3 innings.
Split and spin it any way you like, but if this is "there", then you're f*cked, Scott. What's that? It's only Spring Training?
Okay, here's the plan: throw Lannan, Marquis, Mock, Livo, and Stammen up against the wall to start the season, and see what sticks.
So...we're back to "Project 60" again???
Posted by: Bote Man | March 24, 2010 at 03:59 AM
Oh, and if ¡Livan! sticks to the wall, you know something is wrong. All those Deepin Dots gotta weigh down that Large Tub of Goo sumpin fierce!
Posted by: Bote Man | March 24, 2010 at 04:02 AM
Agreed - I guess the idea of actually "throwing" Livo anywhere doesn't really work, huh?
Posted by: The Nationals Enquirer | March 24, 2010 at 08:34 AM
Agreed. Olsen has underperformed. And he's a punk.
Posted by: Craig | March 24, 2010 at 08:50 AM