Per BBA, the Canadian Olympic baseball team has been named and two players from the Nationals organization are on the roster, IFs Pete Orr & Matt Rogelstad.
The 29-year old Orr was just promoted to Washington so it will be interesting to see if the Nationals option him back to Columbus in time to join the team. Orr batted 275/331/430 with 2 homers, 33 RBI and 19/23 stolen bases for Columbus and 231/231/308 in eight games for the Nationals.
Rogelstad was also just promoted. He moved from Potomac to Harrisburg. The 25-year old Rogelstad was a Carolina League All-Star. In 79 games for the P-Nats, he batted 274/320/442 with 8 homers and 39 RBI. In his first two games for the Senators, he is hitting 0.429 with a double and two singles in 7AB.
Marc | 11-Jul-08 at 2:56 pm | Permalink
IIRC, I heard an interview with Charlie (or Dave) and Orr, who said that if he was up with the big club when the Olympics rolled around that he’d forego playing on the Olympic team to play MLB. He played on the ‘04 team, I guess, and said that he’d prefer to play MLB if he could, but if he was in Columbus, then he’d go play in Beijing.
MiLBFan | 11-Jul-08 at 4:42 pm | Permalink
Congratulations to Rogie and Orr!
Andrew | 11-Jul-08 at 5:22 pm | Permalink
On an unrelated note, I’m sitting here watching Washington Post Live on Comcast Sportsnet, and they had some guy named J.P. Aaron on. He called the Nats farm system “not that good, with a lot of work to do.” He also said that their 2007 draft was overrated. He called Balester a back of the rotation starter, and said they had no front-of-the-rotation starters in the system. To me, these are absolutely heinous claims. Thoughts?
Ronny | 11-Jul-08 at 5:47 pm | Permalink
Andrew- I heard that guy too, and I must say he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He sounds like a hater to me. PS: I never even heard of this guy before, and I could care less about what dude thinks.
Andrew | 11-Jul-08 at 5:52 pm | Permalink
Those were my thoughts exactly. I think he just looked at our AAA squad and evaluated our entire system based on that. I wrote in to WPL about this guy’s stupidity.
Tom | 11-Jul-08 at 6:09 pm | Permalink
He works for Comcast Sportsnet
Ronny | 11-Jul-08 at 6:16 pm | Permalink
Yeah for him to say our 2007 draft was overrated was just stupid and it’s good that you wrote them about it, when you got a guy like Michael Burgess and 3 top 30 pitcher in one draft how can you sit up there with a straight face and say that is beyond me. And him thinking all of our talent is in AAA shows he really don’t know much about our farm system. Maybe he should come on this website now and then to learn something.
Ronny | 11-Jul-08 at 6:24 pm | Permalink
Tom- Well maybe Comcast should fire him because he really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I mean he thinks a guy with the stuff that Balester has is a back of the rotation guy, not #2 not #3 but a 4-5. Balester made two starts and already he’s a back of the rotation guy PLEASE!
Andrew | 11-Jul-08 at 6:31 pm | Permalink
To clarify, he didn’t say all of our talent was in AAA. He just only talked about players in AAA (Clippard, Balester). So that makes me think that he only evaluated AAA and ignored the other levels.
Cole | 11-Jul-08 at 7:21 pm | Permalink
I just did a Google search for “J.P. Aaron baseball” and nothing came up combining those terms.
Andrew | 11-Jul-08 at 9:02 pm | Permalink
Dmitri Young has left the game with tightness in his lower back. Any chance we see Rhinehart?!??! My guess is they don’t call him up and move someone like Lo Duca to first.
Andrew F | 11-Jul-08 at 9:03 pm | Permalink
Commented mistakenly at the end of the previous post, but Bowden and Rijo are under federal and MLB investigation for their Dominican dealings.