Good evening DoD readers, and welcome to today’s District Daily. Get caught up on the latest Nats news and opinions with some great Washington Nationals articles from around the web below.
In today’s Daily, The Washington Post’s James Wagner discusses why Nationals manager Dusty Baker decided to place Gio Gonzalez second in the team’s rotation — between presumed ace Max Scherzer and before Stephen Strasburg.
As Wagner writes in his article, Baker hopes that Gonzalez being in between the team’s two best starters will help preserve the bullpen. Gonzalez often struggles to go deep into games, and if he were third in the rotation, the ‘pen could have intense workloads on days when the Nos.