Monday Morning Filibuster 4/29/24: at Erie
Your weekly recap of the AA Harrisburg Senators
Although the Sunday tilt against Erie was rained out, the Senators had a productive week, with three wins against the Seawolves. I will, however, use this space to lodge two complaints. The first is that we learned late last week that Dylan Crews had been dealing with a hamstring issue, which is why he was out of the lineup for over a week (he returned on Saturday).
I’m not a doctor, but I know that hamstring tightness + cold weather = bad news, so why didn’t the organization put Crews on the 7-day injured list while he was dealing with this? He returned to the lineup on Saturday, but in the meantime, the Senators were left short-handed (and some major league-level injuries could shake things up further). The second issue is that the Nats insist on continuing to use Cole Henry - now on the 40-man roster, lest we forget - as a starting pitcher, even though he hasn’t thrown fifty innings in a season since his first year of college in 2019.
While he has been pretty good thus far in 2024 (he’s walked too many, but it’s still a small sample), he has not thrown more than 61 pitches or pitched into the fourth inning since last June. His injury history is extensive, and the odds of him becoming a starting pitcher in the big leagues are vanishingly small - can the Nats convert him into a multi-inning reliever already? Thank you.
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