The International League named their All-Star team today and it included three members of the Syracuse Chiefs. The July 15 Triple-A All-Star game in Portland, OR will include 2B Seth Bynum, OF Jorge Padilla, and RHP J.D. Martin.
Bynum is hitting 250/304/483 with 12 homers and 41 RBI over 68G for the Chiefs. Padilla is batting 365/438/442 with 2 homers, 12 RBI and 8/16 SB. Martin is 8-2 with a 2.25 ERA, 0.89 WHIP over 14G (13GS) for Syracuse with 58K/7BB in 76IP
#1 by expo_ram - July 2nd, 2009 at 14:11
With Zimmermann, Detwiler, Lannan, and hopefully Strasburg penciled in the future rotation, it seems like we could package an arm or 2 between Martin, Martis, Stammen, Olsen, Balester, Willems, Smoker, McGeary, etc. to get some talent. We seem to have plenty of back of the rotation depth.
#2 by Andrew Z. Stebbins - July 2nd, 2009 at 15:16
Martin was a minor league free agent signing. He could have signed with anyone (well, in theory) this offseason and he chose the Nationals. Not sure if a team will be interested in trading for him. He’s a free agent again at the end of the season.
#3 by BinM - July 2nd, 2009 at 21:50
Congrats the the SYR players who made the IL All-Star team. Sadly, Rizzo will need to move all three of them out of the orginization before the trading deadline, or lose them to FA in 2010, since none of them belong on the 25/40-man roster in WSH .
#4 by Guy Holly - July 2nd, 2009 at 23:53
You could get a bag of ball for all three of them.
#5 by Jane - July 3rd, 2009 at 19:34
Congratulations, Seth Bynum and Jorge Padilla, on being selected for the AAA All-Star Team!!
#6 by Tom - July 3rd, 2009 at 21:30
What do theyhey all have in common? Neither of them is on the 40 man roster. What does that have to say about the Nats’ player development?
The guys can see Mike out in Portland.