Quote Originally Posted by dawgs View Post
Good teams do go on the road and take 2 of 3 from each of the dodgers and mariners. And yes, soriano is a concern. I think storen will be closing full time before October. Storen has a sub-1.00 era since the start of August (0.00 era in September) and a 1.34 era on the season. The nats panicked after he blew that cardinals playoff series (on a lot of seeing eye grounders and shit that's BABIP luck, he wasn't getting hit hard) and brought in soriano. That wrecked his confidence for 2013. They should have reenforced his confidence and rolled into 2013 with him still the closer - there's been a lot of all-time great closers that lost a playoff series or World Series. No need to overreact.

Clippard had had a rough outing in LA, so his September numbers aren't great, but he's otherwise been great all season, no need to panic over small sample sizes, even Kimbrel has a bad outing here and there.

Soriano has been bad the whole 2nd half, I agree, but he's really been the extent of it. And that should be remedied now that he's out of the closer job.
Storen should fix back end. Just sour grapes on my part. Congrats on east