Nats Injury News: J. Zimmermann to DL, Balester up
The Nationals have placed RHP Jordan Zimmermann on the DL with a sore elbow and called up Colin Balester from the DL to replace him according to Ed Price on Twitter .
Zimmermann was 3-5 with a 4.63 ERA in his first major league season.
The 23 year old Balester was 7-9 with a 4.35 ERA at [...]
Nats Player News: Olsen to DL, J.D. Martin up
Scott Olsen was placed on the disabled list retroactive to July 11th according to ESPN. Olsen had only returned from the disabled list a few weeks ago and is scheduled to see the dreaded Dr Andrews on Monday.
J.D. Martin will make his first major league start on Monday against the Mets and is 8-3 with [...]
Nationals Player News: Tavarez DFA’d, Kensing up
After being swept in four games by the Cubs on Sunday, the Nationals designated Julian Tavarez for assignment according to the Nationals Journal in the Washington Post. He will be replaced by Logan Kensing from AAA Syracuse.
Nats Player News: Dmitri Young to make Minor league start
According to Baseball in DC’s Twitter feed, Nationals 1B Dmitri Young will make a start for their class A minor league team tonight.
Dmitri Young has not played in a game since July 11th, 2008 and has been sidelined with various issues.
Check back to NLEC for more.
NL East News: Pedro, Halladay and All-Star Starters
The biggest news of the day appears to be that according to many reports, including Todd Zolecki’s Twitter, that former Met Pedro Martinez is on his way to Philadelphia. His latest news says that the physical may not be completed until tomorrow, but a deal is expected by Wednesday.
Zolecki also speaks to different Philly players [...]
NL East Player News: Detwiler, Ayala, Norton
The Nationals yesterday optioned RHP Ross Detwiler to the minors after losing to the Astros. He was 0-5 with an ERA over six this year.
The corresponding move was to bring back reliever Garret Mock as a starter. While starting in the minors, Mock was 5-1 with a 2.65 ERA, his first start will be Sunday.
The [...]
Two NL East Players in final vote
Two NL East Players have been entered into the All-Star game final vote contest. This will decide who takes the last spot on the National League All-Star team in St. Louis.
The players are the Philadelphia Phillies’ Shane Victorino and the Washington Nationals’ Christian Guzman.
You can vote by going to MLB.com
NL East gets 5 starters and 11 total in 2009 All-Star Game
The Rosters for the 2009 All-Star in St. Louis have been announced, and the National League East has 11 total representatives including 5 positional starters and the Mets leading the way with four representatives. The players that are listed are below:
Starters
Chase Utley 2B
Raul Ibanez OF
Reserves
Ryan Howard 1B
Starters
Hanley Ramirez
Pitchers
Josh Johnson RHP
Starters
David Wright 3B
Carlos Beltran OF
Pitchers
Johan Santana [...]
Nats Player News: Elijah Dukes to AAA
AP and ESPN report the Washington Nationals sent OF Elijah Dukes to Syracuse on Wednesday after the trade with Pittsburgh yesterday. They did this in order to make room on the roster for Nyjer Morgan because Lastings Milledge was currently on the minor league roster when the trade was made.
Both players received on Tuesday are [...]
Nats Player News: Nationals trade for Nyjer Morgan
Earlier this afternoon the Nationals officially completed a trade which will bring them OF Nyjer Morgan from the Pittsburgh Pirates and left handed reliever Sean Burnett. The Nationals gave up still young, but troublesome Lastings Milledge and reliever Joel Hanrahan to get the deal done.
Morgan is having a very solid season at the age of [...]
