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MLB Opening Day 2016: Washington Nationals' robust, but shallow, rotation

Believe it or not, not everyone has spent the winter obsessing over the Washington Nationals' Hot Stove deals and signings. So over the next few weeks, with Opening Day approaching, we'll reset the table and catch everyone up. Here's the rotation.

With the high-end talent it possesses, it's hard to imagine the Washington Nationals' starting rotation hinging on Bronson Arroyo. But yet, here we are.

Arroyo's injury this week -- first announced as a labrum issue, then a career-ending rotator cuff tear, later revised as an inflamed bursa sac (or not, no one really knows) -- helped to illustrate the precarious position the Nats are in.