Victor Robles, the Washington Nationals’ top prospect, the second-best in baseball according to MLBPipeline.com, and the eighth according to Baseball America, is in an odd, odd, odd situation.
The story up to today:
At the beginning of September, the prevailing logic was as follows: Robles would get September off, go play in the Arizona Fall League, and then get his first Major League exposure when he got an invite to big-league camp in the spring.
But the Nats decided to divert from what appeared to be the plan — a few times, actually, starting on September 7th, when they called Robles up directly from Double-A for the end of the season/to be insurance in case Bryce Harper’s knee (remember when that was a thing?