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Fantasy Baseball Dingers and Stingers: May 22
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Dingers:
Adam LaRoche (1B WAS) 59% owned in Yahoo! – Many people were writing off LaRoche after his awful start to the season. This reminds me of Aramis Ramirez’s start last year. He got off to a bad start and had one of the best seasons of his career. LaRoche is batting .339 in May,...
Espinosa's Early Peformance Parallels LaRoche's Injury Shortened Season
The weaknesses in the Washington Nationals offense is not limited to one player, or even a couple players. The majority of the Nats offense has been non-existent for significant stretches through the first quarter of the 2013 campaign, but Danny Espinosa is absolutely in the worst period of offensive stagnation.
Espinosa, who got an MRI last September after feeling weakness in...
Nationals 6, Padres 5(10)
Adam LaRoche hit two towering home runs and Chad Tracy's solo shot in the 10th inning lifted the Washington Nationals to a 6-5 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.
Tracy's seventh career pinch-hit home run negated a blown save from closer Rafael Soriano, who gave up two runs with two outs in the ninth.
The Padres tied the game with three straight singles....
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Adam LaRoche Slump May Be Coming to an End
Adam LaRoche could be on the verge of ending a season-opening slump. Over the last 20 plate appearances LaRoche is reach base 14 times. Those are nearly Hall of Fame numbers coming from where he has been.
Even with the recent uptick in offensive production LaRoche is still hitting just .196/ .291/ .314 with a grand total of three home runs and 10 RBI.
La Roche suffered...
Video: Tim Hudson's Eephus pitch to Adam LaRoche (was really a knuckleball)
So Tim Hudson threw a ~45 MPH Eephus pitch to his buddy Adam LaRoche in the second inning of Thursday night's Nats-Braves game. Everybody got a good chuckle out of it. Turns out the Eephus pitch was actually a knuckleball, LaRoche called for it, and Hudson and LaRoche have "history". Via Amanda Comak of the Washington Times, Hudson likes to mess with LaRoche:
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Washington Nationals use Adam LaRoche's son to get out of practice
The weather wasn't so welcoming to the Washington Nationals on Sunday. The players arrived for batting practice at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Fla. and were greeted with temperatures in the lows 40s.So, what do major league players do when they don't feel like taking BP outside in the cold? Send in the little guy, of course.Nats players reportedly sent in Drake LaRoche...
Jimmy Johnson Harlem Shake video, featuring Jayson Werth and Adam LaRoche?
DC Sports Bogposted about Jimmy Johnson's post-Daytona 500 victory celebration on Sunday, which apparently involved the filming of a Harlem Shake video that included Jayson Werth and Adam LaRoche. Video above.Good luck identifying Werth and LaRoche, though, it's not easy to pick 'em out. We're guessing LaRoche is the guy who drives by on the dirt bike, and Werth is...
Six reasons why Adam LaRoche was a good signing
There were some raised eyebrows when the Washington Nationals signed Adam LaRoche to a two year deal with an option on the third. The Nationals were praised for waiting LaRoche out to get the right price, but still, not too many people get all excited when considering LaRoche as a player. After all, his closest comps at his age according to Baseball-reference.com are Geoff Jenkins...
Bucked Up: Adam LaRoche, Nationals, agree to two-year deal
Adam LaRoche agrees to two-year, $24 Million deal with Nationals.
"It’s good to have it done, it really is." (Adam LaRoche, via Washington Post, 7/8/2012)
Michael Morse would beg to differ:
Indeed, Michael Morse has been reduced to trade-bait. He'll be missed.
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Adam LaRoche takes a curtain call...
Via @Nationals: LaRoche, on whether or not he'd celebrate his 100th RBI: "I don't know, I'm still recovering from last night."
Back in spring training if you'd told us we'd be posting an "Adam LaRoche takes a curtain call" thing about Adam LaRoche taking a curtain call after blasting his 33rd home run (100th RBI) on October 3 the night after...
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