Finisher

Bad word choice as it could mean either but I meant they're overloaded with offense and still added good cheap bats. Yet our offseason offensive addition was a guy coming off major injury who quit on his team and then you stick your head in the sand with regard to Davis and when you can shake a tree and a Reynolds/Adams/Cron falls out.

Meanwhile in under two weeks for the equivalent of peanuts, Mark Reynolds has 6 homers and a 1.4 OPS. Nats are lousy with offense and yet they still added Reynolds and Matt Adams for basically nothing.

What is Seth Smith up to? Toss him a million to be our RFer again.

.215 OBP in 89 major league at-bats and shaky defense. Obligatory he was rushed and he's young, but there's a reason we're about the only team that goes so balls deep in this Rule 5 nonsense. Other teams just spend a few bucks on international talent or y'know trade for players.

He's a AAAA/utility guy on a hot streak but I always wanted to see what Flaherty could do with regular at bats. Can't hurt getting away from the O's hackathon homer-or-bust approach.

Brady bulked him up nice. Looks so scrawny in his baseball card on his baseball cube page, doesn't even look like the same person. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?ID=171720

"Said Cashner: “I don’t think it’s been difficult. It’s been interesting, it’s been different. I met with Brady back in November and we’ve had dialogue ever since. He’s reached out to me and I’ve reached out to him and I think the communication’s been great throughout the whole process.” " Yeah, seems this was totally a Brady move.

Chacin at home last year: 1.79 ERA Chacin on the road last year: 6.53 ERA Just need Cashner to come even remotely close to repeating whatever the hell he did last year.

Not really a Cashner fan and everything about last season screams fluke but I like the structure of the deal. Not a lot of risk if he's awful. Would also tell him DON'T CHANGE A DAMN THING FROM last year. Whatever he did, it worked. Of course you know Buck will try to drill time to the plate into him and we'll do whatever other tweaks we try to do on starters .. Jaime Garcia only got 1/10 from Toronto. Would've been all over him at that price.

Yeah, this team right now has everything other than the Dez-type slasher.

Yeah, we're going to be figgin loaded next year. Melo/Stone/Carter/Layman are all NBA draft worthy. Should see a couple of the other young guys now develop with so much talent around them. Wouldn't be surprised if Ceko and Wiley transfer.

Jake Arrieta with 10 strikeouts through 5 innings. Season ERA at 2.06.