District Daily: Washington Nationals Should Sell High On Tanner Roark
By Pablo Roa
Oct 4, 2014; Washington, DC, USA; Washington Nationals relief pitcher
Tanner Roark(57) pitches in the 17th inning against the San Francisco Giants in game two of the 2014 NLDS playoff baseball game at Nationals Park. Mandatory Credit:
Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports
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Washington Nationals Should Sell High On Tanner Roark
The Washington Nationals made possibly the offseason’s biggest splash when they signed Max Scherzer to add to an already intimidating pitching staff. As soon as they made the move, speculation came that the team would look to move one of their other starters like Jordan Zimmerman or even Stephen Strasburg.
Who the Nationals should really trade, though, is Tanner Roark, who was penciled in as the team’s fifth starter before the Scherzer signing, but is now likely headed to the bullpen.
Roark had a successful first full season in the big leagues in 2014, posting a 2.85 ERA along with a respectable 6.25 K/9 and great 1.77 BB/ in 198.1 innings. However, that was likely too good to be true. Every ERA indicator shows that he should not have been quite that good of a pitcher. xFIP thought he really should have put up a 3.84 ERA, and his 104 xFIP- says he was actually a slightly-below-average pitcher. Likewise, his SIERA (3.93) and FIP (3.47) also indicate that he was a significantly worse pitcher than his ERA indicates. Read full article here.
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Is Stephen Strasburg Worth a True ‘Destroy the Farm’ Trade Package?
(Jacob Shafer, Bleacher Report)
The question isn’t whether anyone wants Stephen Strasburg. Everyone wants a 26-year-old budding ace who just led the National League in strikeouts.
The question is whether anyone will pay what it takes to get him.
Make no mistake: it’ll take a lot.
Exactly how much is unclear, but CSN Washington‘s Chase Hughes was probably understating it when he suggested “a significant haul of prospects.”
Essentially, to land one of baseball’s best young arms, any potential suitor would have to sell the farm—literally. Is he worth it? Read full article here.