{"id":4606,"date":"2009-10-07T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2009\/10\/nats-have-a-lot-to-do-this-offseason.html"},"modified":"2009-10-07T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T10:25:00","slug":"nats-have-a-lot-to-do-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2009\/10\/nats-have-a-lot-to-do-this-offseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats have a lot to do this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/05\/AR2009100503453.html\"><b>Nationals Prepare for Offseason Makeover<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><br \/><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/oct\/06\/nationals-offseason-primer\/\"><b>Nationals offseason primer<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Wash. Times<\/i><br \/>The Nationals need to find an assistant GM, farm director and more scouts. They also need to decide who their manager is going to be for 2010. Other decisions &#8212; whether to offer Scott Olsen, who was not very good before having arm surgery, arbitration. I see go for it on that front. As for retaining <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Jim Riggelman<\/span>, I&#8217;m not sure. My main concern is the management of young pitchers and seeing what happened to Kerry Wood under Riggelman&#8217;s watch does not inspire confidence. They need to bring in at least one veteran pitcher, probably two, as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/technorati.gif\" border=\"0\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/WashingtonNationals\" rel=\"tag\">Washington Nationals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/nats\" rel=\"tag\">Nats<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationals Prepare for Offseason Makeover &#8211; The PostNationals offseason primer &#8211; The Wash. TimesThe Nationals need to find an assistant GM, farm director and more scouts. They also need to decide who their manager is going to be for 2010. 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