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Nationals Place Shawn Kelley On 10-Day DL

By Jeff Todd | May 5, 2017 at 5:56pm CDT

The Nationals have placed righty Shawn Kelley on the 10-day DL with a lower back strain. Kelley has been out with illness, but his “back flared up” while he was warming up to see if he felt well enough to pitch tonight, Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports.com explains. He’ll be replaced on the active roster by southpaw Matt Grace.

While it seems reasonable to hope that Kelley wont be out for too long, the news means the team will be without its de facto closer for at least another week. The DL placement was backdated to May 2. Of course, now that the move has been made, the Nats will no doubt make sure he’s not activated until fully healed.

The Nats’ closing situation is as questionable as ever. While Kelley has been unusually homer prone through his ten innings, he has looked himself in the K/BB department (13:3) and is probably the team’s best option. But it has never been the organization’s preference to utilize him in that capacity.

Youngster Koda Glover is nearing his own return from the DL, and may be the favorite to take over the ninth when he’s back. Until he’s activated, the club could be forced to turn over their ninth-inning leads to Enny Romero, Matt Albers, or one of the team’s two struggling relievers (Blake Treinen and Joe Blanton) who had been expected to handle high-leverage work.

It’s arguable that the injury could increase the pressure on the Nats front office to strike an earlier-than-usual deal for a replacement. With the team playing well anyway, though, paying a major premium to get a closer now still seems unlikely. At some point, though, Washington figures to boost its late-inning mix via trade.

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  1. pplama

    8 years ago

    I think Hahn would be kind enough to let Rizzo decide which .400 hitting prospect he’d like to give up for DRob- Soto or Kieboom, along with Watson.
    Nats ownership seemingly made quite a blunder when they nixed the original agreement Rizzo had with the Sox for him.

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    • mike.gordon34

      8 years ago

      Blah blah…sox fan. Still banging that drum. Look how well the last trade faired. Other than the injury, giolito’s over 6 era is helping you well?

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      • mike.gordon34

        8 years ago

        *Eaton injury… he was doing a hell of a job other than what we gave up. We don’t want Drob. We’ll get someone else and watch the sox continue to fester

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      • dewssox79

        8 years ago

        kind of a sample size for giolito. eaton will never be the same.

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    • chesteraarthur

      8 years ago

      Yeah, those 19-9 nats and their 6.5 game lead in the division are just champing at the bit to give up top prospects for a closer getting paid roughly market value….

      Your act is so very tired.

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      • nats2012

        8 years ago

        20 – 9!

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      • dewssox79

        8 years ago

        you will need a bullpen in the playoffs especially a closer. than again you may need starting pitching after dusty blows out the rotation.

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        • jdgoat

          8 years ago

          Why’s a win in the playoffs any different than one in the regular season?

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    • nats2012

      8 years ago

      lol. No one wins trades with Rizzo. You haven’t learned that yet?

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  2. outinleftfield

    8 years ago

    And a bad situation gets worse.

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  3. ba2929

    8 years ago

    Kelvin Herrera will be a Nat before the All Star Game.

    Mark it down.

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  4. hodor 3

    8 years ago

    Nationals should consider giving Eric Gagne a call and see if he can be effective again.

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