DFA Tony Clark, please

If it isn’t the poll I wanted to see.

7-0-0 so far.

about the team’s locker room atmosphere, it looks like TC’s veteran presence is batting less than .200 too.

but with reynolds/tracy/ojeda and wilson if we brought him backup to man the corners it seems silly to give bats to TC over whitesell.

ive been a huge fan of whitesell since i found him like a hidden gem in the nationals organization while i was scouting for fantasy baseball – i was loud in asking my league mates, Why does no one believe in this whitesell kid?? he is hitting 30 HR a year in AA and AAA. i hear about prospects who after hitting 11 homers in A ball are now certain sluggers in the majors, what gives.

whitesell has struggled a bit, a huge amount of bad luck, and bad situation during his major league stint – like anyone remember that felipe lopez double take on 3rd base then getting nailed at the plate creating the FC that took away whitesell’s first single and rbi???

at this point in the season, i want to bring up all the guys with a future in this club, especially whitesell and let them get the hang of what it takes and go forward – with that id also like to see schlereth back up and id like us to give any other pitcher in our organization a chance at any spot coming up in the rotation outside of petit and honestly, keep buckner starting on the road and see if he can keep his groove on the road

Our FO has been far from perfect (Carlos Q/Byrnes stands out the most) but for the most part, the actions that have been taken have been well thought out and it has been somewhat hard to find fault in their reasoning. The results might not always pan out like we want them to, but it has been difficult to question the logic, for example, of trading Jose Valverde instead of paying him $8mm/yr and getting Qualls, Guitierrez and Burke for him. Granted, not all of the moves have worked out, but like I said, the moves are usually well thought out and for the most part make sense.

That is where the Clark/Whitesell situation just baffles me—it makes ZERO sense to have Josh playing in AAA where we already know that he can hit and not in the big leagues to see if he is your (very affordable and quite possibly productive) answer at 1B every day next year. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, pinch hit HRs by Tony be damned (all ONE of them). And to answer Moozazan (above), I remember that Lopez baserunning gaffe very clearly—I couldn’t believe the play at all—I was watching the RF field the ball and throw and thought to myself “Why in the world would Hale send the guy from 2nd (I think it was Upton) home on that play? He is going to be a dead duck!” Only that it was Lopez robbing Whitesell of his first clutch hit and 1st RBI.

DFA Tony…Free Josh Whitesell!!!

I love TC and love what he has done for us but he is hurting us more than helping us at this point. Time to thank him for his time and DFA him.

while he was around ?

given that I doubt we could get anything in trade for him (although a pizza would be a nice deal), his future is in a coaching role. While I’m somewhat skeptical about Whitesell’s abilities at the major league level, there’s nothing to lose at this time.

with TC and then pick a fight with Rausch

John Raucsh looks like a cross eyed dolphin who is high

Im 6 foot and have a few tats. Does that make me a bad ass street fighter ? No, of course not. Being ttly wasted and hammered out of my mind, does however, give my body and brain the infoulable inpression that I am.

Looks mean nothing. I’m a mean looking guy(nothing intentional) and I’d like to consider myself fit and kinda buff but I will straight up tun into a 6 yr old girl if I see a cockroach or any other flying beetle type insect. Unless of course I’ve been drinking…….then it’s on.

recliners, lighters, bullpen relievers, lions and the occasional Silverado. Doesn’t matter.

and give the playing time at third to that scrappy kid Ryan Roberts. I think that kid is going to be something special.