The 2009 baseball season is halfway over and one thing has become highly apparent when it comes to the Washington Nationals.  This team seriously lacks pitching, especially in the bullpen.  While the roster may feature a few promising young arms like Jordan Zimmermann and John Lannan, there is still plenty of work that needs to be done.  I realize that the farm system is incredibly thin and progress with Stephen Strasburg isn’t looking that good but I have a few suggestions on how you can find a few diamonds in the rough.  If there is one thing that rivals my love for baseball it has to be my love for cinema and thankfully my two worlds have finally had the chance to collide.  As the President of a Major League Baseball franchise, you are probably already well aware that high schools are an excellent source of young talent but everyone has been pumping that well for years.  If you really want to make a genius move, you’ll scout the local Middle Schools for awkwardly clumsy pre-teens who are just a simple broken arm away from a 102 mph fastball.  You may think that’s absurd but then again so did the Cubs and I didn’t see them complaining when Henry Rowengartner led them to the World Series Championship.

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