Email a copy of 'Nationals Notes: Boras, Rizzo, Papelbon/Harper' to a friend
Loading ...
By charliewilmoth | at
Email a copy of 'Nationals Notes: Boras, Rizzo, Papelbon/Harper' to a friend
MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com
hide arrows scroll to top
LH
Firing Rizzo is the worst idea, he’s straight up a top 5 gm in the game and has executed the best trades of any gm. Ramos, gio, fister, span, thornton, Escobar deals were all great and only willingham, Blevins and pap come across as clearly bad trades and only pap of those was a disaster.
homeparkdc
Although not a trade, I would add Janssen to the list of bad deals. The bullpen fiasco this year is on Rizzo. OTOH, the bad Billy Burns/Blevins trade may be cancelled out by the Blevins/den Dekker trade. Matt den Dekker is coming on strong. Rizzo will stay, IMO. Looking forward to his winter moves.
kershawsrightarm
Any support of Papelbon is just pity to me it seems. No need to sugar coat it. You can apply it to any other aspect in live besides fighting and anybody reasonably sane can tell you it’s assault and out of line. The guy has a knack for the neck up it seems.
bradthebluefish
You see fights like this in practice on the Seattle Seahawks and many other teams. It was a “heat of the moment” event.
If Harper is truly cool with Papelbon and truly considers it a fight among brothers (his words, not mine), then I don’t see a problem.
But if Harper and his teammates can’t take Papelbon in the clubhouse anymore, then he has to go.
Fangaffes
Hanley and cash for Papelbon.
start_wearing_purple
No thanks.
Brixton
And Hanley would play where?
gomerhodge71
Are you throwing in a year’s worth of free counseling?
22222pete
Papelbon comes from a team with a winning culture when he was in Boston. What he has seen with the Phillies and Nats has probably disappointed him. Perhaps he saw himself as a veteran who was telling some kid how he should play the game, or something else was brewing between the 2. No idea what Harper said to Papelbon when they were arguing, maybe it was an invitation to tangle. We can only speculate
homeparkdc
Sorry to see Nitkowski’s click bait mentioned again. Maybe, just maybe, the anonymous players were the same ones who voted Bryce Harper the Most OverRated Player before the 2015 season.
eephus11
Scott Boras might be the highest paid person in the organization
lonechicken
Add victim-blaming to the list of unwritten rules that old-school baseball people cling to.
Jonathan T.
Nationals certainly do have a lot of Boras clients.