Nationals Interested In DeRosa, Gonzalez

No chance the Nats sign Derosa and if Gonzalez is offered arbitration they would be stupid to sign him. They need all the picks they can get.

Their first round pick is protected, but their second round pick would not be.

The nats would be better served just spending money on multiple FA's to shore up that BP. Putz would be another good one for them to go after.

The Braves would get a 1st rd supplemental as well as the Nats 2nd rd pick(which is almost like a 1st rd pick anyway since they have the 1st pick in the 2nd rd)

All the more reason for the Braves to offer both Gonzalez and Soriano arbitration. The interest is out there for at least one of them to get signed. And if you get them both back on one year deals why not, we all saw what good bullpens do in the playoffs. I say go for it Nats sign away !

I think you and a *few other's feel the same.
But, it all depend's on what your definition of "decent" is.

ThinkBlue - you obviously haven't seen the Nats' starting rotation lately:

John Lannan
Garrett Mock
J.D. Martin
Marco Estrada
Craig Stammen

Granted, that won't be the rotation on Opening Day and Stephen Strasburg seems like the real deal, but I think we're looking at 2012 here? Bryce Harper will help, but not until then most likely, and the team isn't going to attract any big free agents until they've built up their core. Strasburg, Zimmerman X 2, Milledge, Harper, etc. is a good start, but this team is FAR from even becoming decent.

i though DeRo was gonna lead the Cubs to a WS next year! hahaha

The Nats could def be a good team.

If they were to pick up a few 2nd tier free agents instead of the top tier ones they could be pretty solid next year maybe even threaten a little bit. Their offense is pretty good their pitching is the problem.

say they have 15 mil to work with.

try 2 back end SP's and 2 BP arms. JJ Putz and another solid arm would help anchor it.

If they could just get a rotation that has around a 4-4.5 ERA they could do a lot better than they did this year

fawk the nationals, my ass is more interesting, aight?

right cause the mets are so much better lol

The Braves will most definitely offer Mike Gonzalez arbitration. Things are not so clear with Soriano (since his potential salary from arbitration is twice that of Gonzalez). Nevertheless, it would take the Nats a bit of overpaying to get Gonzo to sign with them. There are no doubt contenders that will want Gonzalez (maybe as middle relief).