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Vandals Took The Handles
Rendon’s natural position in 3B – a long shot to be a Hall Of Famer there. Zimmerman can’t throw. They can try hiding him in LF, but Harper can’t play CF while Span is great there. And Zim is the face of the franchise so trading him is pretty much out of the question (the Nationals value things like that to create bonds with their fans).
Mr. Laroche is a very good 1B, and with multiple teams needing one, he should have no problem playing the rest of his career on a good team, or teams.
paqza
Spot on – Rendon’s moving to 3B with Zimm going to 1B.
Yohan
Umm did you just put Rendon and HOF in the same sentence?
rct 2
Don’t be so quick to dismiss that idea! All he needs to do is have 12-15 more seasons like the one (and only good one) he just had.
basquiat
If you’ve watched him since the day he came up to the majors, you would be a believer. He doesn’t get the publicity and he likes it that way. But he was way more valuable to the Nationals than Harper.
Yohan
While Rendon is a great player he is a massive long shot to ever be a HOFer. He would need multiple top 3 MVP finishes and likely an MVP award too. Aramis Ramirez had nearly 10 seasons with an OPS+ of 122 or more and most don’t even think he has a chance at the HOF. Mostly due to never being considered one of the best in any given year.
Until he has 4 more good seasons and at least one top 3 finish this conversation should never be brought up again.
On a side not I am not sure why him being more valuable than Harper is really surprising. Harper only played in 100 games vs.153 by Rendon.
basquiat
I base my comments on watching him play.
elscorchot
ike davis had a worse season this year than garret jones did. why on earth would they want him?
paqza
Davis had a 120 wRC+ vs RHP and Jones had a 107 wRC+ vs RHP. Davis also had much stronger K% and BB% against RHP than Jones, and has better numbers vs RHP than Jones for his career.
pitnick
And he’s 6 years younger.
IjustloveBaseball
Ike Davis has very good “secondary” skills and because BA/homers don’t jump out at you he isn’t going to cost much through arbitration. Still, entering the 2015 season he will only be 28 years old so turning it around is not at all far-fetched. I think it’d be a great move more the Marlins to trade for him.
As for the Nats, let Laroche walk. He’ll be expensive and is in the latter years of his career now. He has been great and will likely still be a productive player but in context to the Nationals situation, it would be best to part ways. Because of his importance to the franchise Zimmerman has to be an everyday guy for them and obviously it is most likely going to be as a 1st baseman with Rendon moving to 3rd. It all works out..
Noneya
I don’t know many teams in this case the Nats who willingly give up on the guy who led the team in hr’s and rbi’s for this amount of money. In fact I’d like to know when the last time this scenario happened and how it turned out.
Flash Gordon
It happens. Not the exact same situation but a reasonable comp just the same. Josh Willingham hit 29 home runs and had 98 RBI during the 2011 season for the Athletics. Those were far and away the highest totals on the team. The Athletics did not even try to re-sign him even though he signed for just 3/21 with the Twins as a free agent. They gladly took the draft pick compensation and moved on to rebuild the team through trades and the Cespedes signing. They went from 74 to 94 wins and won the AL west. The Nationals would likely pick up the option on LaRoche if they could count on Zimmerman at third but they can’t. They have to put Zimmerman somewhere given his bat and contract. 1B is the only reasonable place for him to go on a NL team.
Justafan
my only question is; is that 3k before or after tax?