The Nationals announced that right-hander Drew Smith has been released. Smith signed a minor league deal last month, and the Nats had to make a decision by this weekend about including the righty on the 40-man roster, or else Smith could trigger the first of three built-in opt-out dates within his contract.
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Nats trying really hard to go for the worst record in baseball. Why release a cheap veteran reliever who only gave up 2 hits and 2 walks in 5.1 IP and struck out 7 this spring?
This doesn’t make any sense to me. Crews going down makes perfect sense. This doesn’t come close. Do they know something we don’t?