{"id":12034,"date":"2020-03-14T14:33:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=12034"},"modified":"2020-03-14T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T18:33:22","slug":"nationals-release-strickland-hernandez-reassign-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2020\/03\/14\/nationals-release-strickland-hernandez-reassign-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals release Strickland, Hernandez, reassign others"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Saturday the Nationals released pitchers Hunter Strickland and David Hernandez. A slue of others were optioned to minor league teams.<\/p>\n

Strickland, 31, came to the Nationals as a deadline acquisition from the Mariners but he struggled during his 24 appearances with the team. The team and Strickland avoided arbitration agreeing on a deal worth $1.6 million but after a 10.80 ERA in seven spring outings they are ready to move on. Strickland will now be able to sign with any team.<\/p>\n

The Nationals added Hernandez, 34, on a minor league deal in January but he struggled in spring training and was not an option for the teams’ 26-man roster. Lasts year Hernandez had a 8.02 era in 27 games for the Reds and will now find himself looking for minor league options elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Additionally the team optioned RHP Kyle McGowin, RHP Aaron Barrett, LHP Ben Braymer and INF Jake Noll to Triple-A Fresno; re-assigned INF Jacob Wilson, OF Brandon Snyder, C Taylor Gushue, OF JB Shuck, RHP Dakota Bacus, RHP Wil Crowe and RHP Bryan Bonnell to minor league camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday the Nationals released pitchers Hunter Strickland and David Hernandez. A slue of others were optioned to minor league teams. Strickland, 31, came to the Nationals as a deadline acquisition from the Mariners but he struggled during his 24 appearances with the team. The team and Strickland avoided arbitration agreeing on a deal worth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1185,503,1184,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-david-hernandez","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-hunter-strickland","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12036,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034\/revisions\/12036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12034"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}