{"id":566531,"date":"2010-05-17T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:fantasy,article,yhoo-ept_sports_fantasy_experts-241432:1"},"modified":"2010-05-17T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:47:33","slug":"washington-nationals-call-up-reliever-drew-storen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566531","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals call up reliever Drew Storen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts__27\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts-905046725-1274103971.jpg?ymjytJDD1dl5Rw4O\"With Tyler Clippard<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> on pace to pitch over 110 innings and Brian Bruney<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> on pace to walk over 110 batters (not really, but close), the Washington Nationals<\/a> have called-up Drew Storen<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> to aid the relief corps. Bruney was designated for assignment. <\/p>\n

It shouldn’t take long for Storen to find himself pitching in high-leverage situations for Washington<\/a>. This from MLB.com’s Bill Ladson:<\/p>\n

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[Jim] Riggleman is hoping that Storen will be one of the late-inning relievers. The Nationals have had a tough time finding a reliever who could help setup man Tyler Clippard and closer Matt Capps<\/a>(notes)<\/a>.<\/span> … "We are going to use him as needed," Riggleman said. "I wouldn’t use him in long stints. It will kind of find itself where those innings will be."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Storen, 22, was the tenth overall pick in the 2009 MLB Draft and he’s been considered the Nats’ closer of the future ever since. The right-hander was a dominant reliever in his two seasons at Stanford (12-4, 15 SV, 116 Ks in 99.0 IP), then he was nearly unhittable at three stops in Washington’s minor league system in 2009 (11 SV, 0.78 WHIP, 49 Ks, 8 BB in 37.0 IP). This year, he’s divided his time between Double-A and Triple-A, and he’s been terrific at both levels (1.12 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 15 Ks in 16.0 IP). <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, you’re not adding Storen immediately in standard mixed leagues. He has a chance to finish the year as the Nats’ closer, sure, but he doesn’t have the job just yet. He’s of interest in N.L.-only and\/or dynasty formats right now — and he’s certainly in play in leagues that use holds as a category — but that’s as far as it goes. Capps has been annoyingly good. Until that changes (or Capps is dealt), Storen will only have low-dosage ratio value in fantasy leagues.  <\/p>\n

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With Tyler Clippard(notes) on pace to pitch over 110 innings and Brian Bruney(notes) on pace to walk over 110 batters (not really, but close), the Washington Nationals have called-up Drew Storen(notes) to aid the relief corps. Bruney was designated for assignment. It shouldn’t take long for Storen to find himself pitching in high-leverage situations for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}