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Terrell Young Returned to Reds


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RHP Terrell Young returned to Louisville Bats from Washington Nationals

Young was the Nats only Rule 5 pick and had been on the 15-day DL all season. This opens a spot on the Nationals 40-man, perhaps for RHP Jesus Colome who eligible to be recalled on Friday.

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  1. #1 by NTPNate - May 13th, 2009 at 14:26

    Let’s hope this isn’t a sign of things to come for future Nats #1 overall picks.

  2. #2 by JayB - May 13th, 2009 at 20:55

    What a wasted pick….we had the first pick in the rule 5 draft and the worst bull pen in baseball and somehow our “super smart” scouting department could not find someone who could make the team. Pathetic….Jimbo should be fired….oh wait….what this really tells us is that the whole player development and scouting push has failed yet again.

  3. #3 by Steve - May 13th, 2009 at 22:12

    I see Mike Vento has returned. He was the DH for Syracuse tonight.

  4. #4 by NG - May 14th, 2009 at 13:16

    Curious about the claim that this is evidence of a failure of our player development staff, I investigated the status of the picks in the 2008 Rule V Draft.

    1. Terrell Young — returned by Nats.
    2. Reggie Corona — returned by Mariners.
    3. Everth Cabrera — placed on 60-day DL by Padres.
    4. Donald Veal — still on Pirates roster; 4 appearances, 4.1 innings, 4.15 ERA, 2.54 WHIP.
    5. Lou Palmisano — traded by Orioles to Houston. Not on Houston roster, hasn’t appeared anywhere this year.
    6. Luis Perdomo — DFA’d by Giants.
    7. David Patton — traded by Reds, has appaeared in 9 games with 8.03 ERA for Cubs.
    8. Kyle Bloom — returned by Tigers.
    9. Jose Lugo — traded by Royals, then returned by Mariners.
    10. Bejamin Copeland — either cleared waivers or is on rehab assigment in A’s minor leagues.

    I don’t find any of the other Rule V draftees on the 40-man rosters of the teams that selected them.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_5_draft_results#Major_League_Phase

    While it’s disappointing that the Nats couldn’t find a useful part with the #1 overall Rule V pick, the reality seems to be that this was a low quality draft pool — there certainly wasn’t a Josh Hamilton (or even a Jesus Flores) available here. I don’t think 4.1 mop-up innings of Donald Veal would make this a better team…

  5. #5 by JayB - May 14th, 2009 at 18:35

    NG,

    Thanks for doing the work on Rule 5’s. It is not that Rule 5’s help in April much…The point to me is that this Bull Pen is Sooooo and has so many spots that are open for anyone who who has any talent at all….that this was the perfect time to pick up someone to add to the orgaization. Somewhere in the Rule 5 draft there had to be someone who would have helped some and have potential to develop into a orgaizational part. Young was not all that bad when I watched him in ST…..I would have but him on the team and cut Kensing. Would that hurt the team?

  6. #6 by NG - May 15th, 2009 at 10:16

    My point is, you can’t assess this question in the abstract; you have to look at the actual names of the actual players that were available in the Rule V draft. If you give me the name of someone that we should’ve drafted instead, we can talk about whether that person is or is not better than Logan Kensing.

    I’ll also note that a bad bullpen makes it harder, not easier, to hide a Rule V guy for a full season. If one of your seven bullpen guys is only able to give you 4.1 innings in the first 30 or so games (see Donnie Veal above), then that’s just more innings that you have to give to the Steven Shell’s and Logan Kensing’s of the world.

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