Davey Martinez has been talking up Seth Romero recently, so the Washington Nationals’ announcement this afternoon that they selected the left-hander’s contract and placed their one-time closer Sean Doolittle on the 10-Day Injured List (retroactive to August. 11) with right knee fatigue, didn’t come as too much of a surprise.
Doolittle has struggled to get right early this season, and has been hard at work behind the scenes, but with an injury to Sam Freeman last night, and the decision to place the lefty on the 10-Day IL this morning with a left flexor mass strain, the Nationals needed another left-hander in the bullpen, and they opted for Romero, who was included on the Taxi Squad that is traveling with the team on the road trip to New York and Baltimore.