{"id":397,"date":"2010-02-06T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2010-02-06T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:27:08","slug":"nationals-sign-shawn-estes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/02\/06\/nationals-sign-shawn-estes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals sign Shawn Estes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\"Colorado<\/a> Washington Nationals have signed left hander Shawn Estes to a minor league contract which would be worth $600,000 plus another $400,000 in performance bonus’ should he be added to the clubs 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

People projected Estes off the charts when he first entereted the league with San Fransico based largely on his first pro season in which he won 19 games had a 3.18 ERA and sturck out 181. Sadly for Estes he’s never again approached those numbers which were accumulated in 1997.<\/p>\n

The last time Estes spent a considerable amount of time in the majors was in 2005 when he made 21 starts with Arizona going 7-8 with a 4.80 ERA. Since then he’s been riddled with injuries and has made just 10 appearances.<\/p>\n

Estes made 13 starts for the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate in Albuquerque, this past season, going 3-4 with a 3.07 ERA, before semi-retiring in June because he said he didn’t want to pitch in Triple-A.<\/p>\n

For his career the soon to be 37 year old has a 101-93 record and a 4.71 ERA.<\/p>\n

Roughly a week ago I said everyone should be thankful that Livan Hernandez had not been signed<\/a> by the Nationals yet. Estes isn’t much different. He’s hanging on by a thread, has been a huge injury risk and hasn’t been all that effective when he’s been healthy.<\/p>\n

Sure it might make for a nice warming story early in the year if Estes made the Nationals but the numbers likely will be hideous. I suppose that Estes is the lesser of the two evils since no one expects him to even last 50 innings opposed<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

to Hernandez who has been one of the most durable pitchers of the last 10 years. That being said Estes likely will do less harm for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Nationals have signed left hander Shawn Estes to a minor league contract which would be worth $600,000 plus another $400,000 in performance bonus’ should he be added to the clubs 40-man roster. People projected Estes off the charts when he first entereted the league with San Fransico based largely on his first pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,581,659],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-shawn-estes","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}