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Harrisburg has awesome roster
Look at this roster for Double A Harrisburg. It’s awesome. Manager Matt LeCroy has a lot to work with this year.
Pitchers
Aaron Barrett
Brian Broderick
Caleb Clay
Paul Demny
Marcos Frias
Trevor Holder
Neil Holland
Nathan Karns
Ian Krol
Pat Lehman
Matt Swynenberg
Blake Treinen
Rob Wort
Catchers
Jeff Howell
Sandy Leon
Kris Watts
Infielders
Rick Hague
Josh Johnson
Joe Lozada
Sean Nicol
Anthony Rendon
Matt Skole
Outfielders
Justin Bloxom
Brian Goodwin
Destin Hood
Steven Souza
Game 117: Nationals at Giants
Adam Berry here on the shores of McCovey Cove, pinch-hitting for Bill Ladson. For more news and notes and in-game updates, check out Nationals.com and follow me on Twitter @adamdberry.
A few quick updates from AT&T Park…
-The Nationals have a potential return date set for shortstop Ian Desmond, and it’s a bit sooner than expected. Washington’s All-Star shortstop will be activated for Friday’s series opener against the Mets, provided he gets through his full pregame workouts Tuesday and Wednesday and a simulated game Thursday without incident.
“I plan on, unless Mike Rizzo ties my hand behind my back, activating him. So I’ll keep my fingers crossed,” Nats manager Davey Johnson said. “He’s a horse. I want him back. We all want him back.”
-Jayson Werth is back in the Nats’ starting lineup. Werth reported to AT&T Park with his right ankle feeling much better than it did yesterday, when he was a late scratch from the lineup.
-Michael Morse, meanwhile, was held out of the lineup with a jammed right thumb, which caused him to leave last night’s game early. Johnson hoped to have him back for Wednesday’s series finale, assuming he’s in full health by then, but mentioned that he might not return until Friday.
-Desmond’s sim game on Thursday will be pitched by Chien-Ming Wang, who was recently pulled off his rehab assignment. If he looks fine there, Wang will “more than likely” restart his rehab assignment, Johnson said.
-Speaking of players who will likely join the Nats roster in September, Johnson said Anthony Rendon, promoted earlier today to Double-A Harrisburg, could be a candidate to be called up once the active rosters expand.
“He might be. We’ll see how he finishes up,” Johnson said. “This is the year of the young guys all around baseball, and he’s another one right in that mold.”
As for tonight’s lineups…
Nationals (72-44)
Danny Espinosa SS
Bryce Harper CF
Ryan Zimmerman 3B
Jayson Werth RF
Adam LaRoche 1B
Tyler Moore LF
Jesus Flores C
Steve Lombardozzi 2B
Jordan Zimmermann RHP
Giants (63-53)
Angel Pagan CF
Marco Scutaro 2B
Melky Cabrera LF
Buster Posey C
Pablo Sandoval 3B
Hunter Pence RF
Brandon Belt 1B
Brandon Crawford SS
Madison Bumgarner LHP
Nats’ Rendon suffers ankle injury
Class A Potomac third baseman Anthony Rendon suffered a badly sprained left ankle while running the bases in a 7-2 loss to Lynchburg on Saturday. X-Rays were negative. It’s not known how many games he will miss.
Rendon hurt the ankle in the fourth inning. After a hitting a double, Rendon was trying to score on a bloop single to center by Justin Bloxom. Rendon went down with the ankle injury after rounding third base.
Rendon is a player who has a history of injuries — he’s had shoulder and ankle problems in the past. But that didn’t stop the Nationals from making him their top pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft.
In 63 games that year, Rendon hit .327 with six home runs, 27 RBIs and an on-base percentage of .520 for Rice University.
Thus far, Rendon has played in two games for Potomac and is 2-for-4 with a run scored.
Rendon will play third base for Nats organization
After the Nationals selected third baseman Anthony Rendon with the sixth overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, some wondered if he would make a position switch because they already have Ryan Zimmerman at the position for years to come.
But general manager Mike Rizzo said on Monday night that Rendon will remain at third. But a baseball source indicated that Rendon could move to another position like second or first base in the future.
In 63 games, Rendon hit .327 with six home runs, 27 RBIs and an on-base percentage of .520 for Rice University. The Nationals feel Rendon is on the fast track to the big leagues.
Zimmerman understands Rendon selection
After the Nationals selected third baseman Anthony Rendon with the sixth overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, the question was, what position will he play, since the team already have a third baseman for years to come in Ryan Zimmerman?
There is a strong possibility that Rendon could be switched to second or first base, but the Nationals have not determined their plans.
After playing his second rehab game Monday, Zimmerman said he understood why the Nationals selected a player who plays the same position as he does.
“I better shape up, huh?” Zimmerman asked jokingly. “Obviously the point of the draft is to take the best player available. Whether he’s a shortstop and you have Jose Reyes or he’s a first baseman and you have Albert Pujols, if that’s the best guy, you take him. Talent plays in the big leagues. We’ll see, but I’m sure they have a plan.”
Zimmerman, who is on the disabled list because of an abdominal strain, is currently on a rehab assignment. On Monday, he played for Class A Potomac and went 2-for-3 with a double.
The Nationals are hoping that Zimmerman can be activated from the DL when the Nationals play the Cardinals starting June 14th at Nationals Park.
Three Boras clients selected by Nats
What do third baseman Anthony Rendon, right-hander Alex Meyer and outfielder Brian Goodwin have in common besides being selected by the Nationals in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft on Monday? All three are represented by agent Scott Boras.
In fact, since 2009, the Nationals have selected five players represented by Boras during the first day of the Draft. Two of those players are right-hander Stephen Strasburg and outfielder Bryce Harper. Both players didn’t agree to terms with the club until deadline day which is usually in the middle of August.
Can Washington sign Rendon, Meyer and Goodwin before the deadline, which is Aug. 15th? General manager Mike Rizzo believes he can.
“We are going to try our best to get all three of them signed,” Rizzo said. “These are guys we have identified and I think are going to be a big part of the organization. We are always optimistic that we could get them signed. That’s why we take them. That’s why we do all of this work to evaluate them. We are going to make an attempt to get all three of them signed.”
The last first-round pick not to sign with the Nationals was right-hander Aaron Crow in 2008. He is now a Major League closer with the Royals.
Nationals select Rendon with sixth overall pick
For the second straight year, the Nationals selected a hitter with their first pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft. On Monday night, they selected third baseman Anthony Rendon of Rice University with the sixth pick.
The question is what position will he play, since the Nationals already have a third baseman for years to come in Ryan Zimmerman. There is a strong possibility that Rendon could be switched to second or first base, but the Nationals have not determined their plans.
The Nationals feel Rendon is on the fast track to the big leagues.
“Right now, we feel that third base is his position,” general manager Mike Rizzo said about Rendon. “We evaluate him as a Gold Glove-caliber defensive guy at third base. We are going to delay that decision [as far as making a position switch]. We’ll make that decision down the road.
“I think he is a terrifically polished college player. I think he will be a quick-to-the-big-leagues type of guy, as far as the normal course of a drafted player. But we are not going to put any stipulations or timetables like that. We really feel good about this player. This is a guy that we had at the top of our draft board for a long time. We feel good with who we selected.”
It’s obvious that the Nationals were not turned off by Rendon’s history with injuries. He had shoulder and ankle problems in the past.
“We got all the medical reports and films, our doctors have gone over them painstakingly, and we feel good about it,” Rizzo said.
Injuries didn’t appear to slow Rendon’s season in 2011. In 63 games, he hit .327 with six home runs, 27 RBIs and an on-base percentage of .520 for Rice.
“He has a terrific batting eye. He has great pitch recognition, a tough guy to strike out,” Rizzo said. “He uses the whole field. He is very balanced. He has great raw power.
Along with the line-drive stroke, we feel he is a very efficient hitter and capable of hitting for a high average and for power.”
This year marked the first time since 2008 that the Nationals didn’t have the first overall pick in the Draft. The previous two Drafts, the Nationals selected right-hander Stephen Strasburg and outfielder Bryce Harper with the top overall picks, in 2009 and last year, respectively. Rizzo said it wasn’t hard having five teams pick ahead of them this year.
“We lined up our six best players in the order that we thought we liked them,” Rizzo said. “We were really satisfied with the top six players. We knew we were going to get a good player in the Draft, and when it was our turn to pick, we had Anthony’s name at the top of our list and we pulled it and we feel good about it.”
Live coverage of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft resumes at noon ET Tuesday on MLB.com, where fans will receive exclusive coverage of Day 2 and 3, featuring a live pick-by-pick stream, expert commentary and Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of every Draft-eligible player. You can also keep up to date at Draft Central and by following @MLBDraft on Twitter. And get into the Draft conversation by tagging your tweets with #mlbdraft.
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