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		<title>Rizzo Gets His Pitcher &#8212; Nats Sign Jackson</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/boston-red-sox/rizzo-gets-his-pitcher-nats-sign-jackson</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Diamondbacks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chien-Ming Wang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to believe that Edwin Jackson is the pitcher that Mike Rizzo always wanted. Back when Adam Dunn was engaging in his version of Anacostia&#8217;s aerial bombardment, Rizzo thought of shipping him out to Chicago for Jackson, a stocky hard-throwing righty in Rizzo&#8217;s former organization &#8212; the Arizona Diamondbacks. That deal never went through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Yo, Adrian&#8221; &#8212; Carpenter Nails The Phillies</title>
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		<comments>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/national-league/yo-adrian-carpenter-nails-the-phillies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jayson Werth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Morse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rizzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Louis Cardinals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Playoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Clippard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wilson Ramos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Phillies Phans this is the apocalypse. Chris Carpenter held the &#8220;can&#8217;t miss&#8221; Ashburns to just three hits, and the upstart Cardinals went on to take the NLDS three games to two in a sparkling 1-0 win in Philadelphia, ending the Phillies post-season dream of another October World Series appearance. Phillies fans were so disappointed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nationals Roll Over Atlanta, 3-0</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/atlanta-braves/nationals-roll-over-atlanta-3-0</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drew Storen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Morse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rizzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oakland A's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Detwiler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Clippard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Gonzalez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Wilson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.centerfieldgate.com/?p=9725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Nationals closed out their home half of the 2011 season with a decisive, 3-0 win over the Braves &#8212; bringing the 35,000-plus fans that came to see them to their feet in sustained standing ovations for their home nine. The victory, the team&#8217;s 78th, was sparked by the pitching of Ross Detwiler and home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Livo and Four Homers Burn Atlanta</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/atlanta-braves/livo-and-four-homers-burn-atlanta</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona Diamondbacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Espinosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laynce Nix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livan Hernandez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve hits and four home runs &#8212; one dinger each from Ryan Zimmerman, Michael Morse, Laynce Nix and Danny Espinosa &#8212; and the steady and solid pitching of Livan Hernandez provided Washington with a 9-2 victory in Atlanta. The win broke a six game losing streak and helped to erase the troubles the team had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nats Sign Rice&#8217;s &#8220;All Everything&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/washington-nationals/nats-sign-rices-all-everything</link>
		<comments>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/washington-nationals/nats-sign-rices-all-everything#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike Rizzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Meyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Rendon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Goodwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lylin Turnbull]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March of this year, a blog promoting Dick Allen for the Hall of Fame picked Anthony Rendon as the top pick in the draft &#8212; and the top pick for the (ah) Pittsburgh Pirates. &#8220;Rice&#8217;s All Everything 3B Anthony Rendon is expected by almost everyone to be the #1 overall pick by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nats In Talks With Twins On Denard Span</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/trades/nats-in-talks-with-twins-on-denard-span</link>
		<comments>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/trades/nats-in-talks-with-twins-on-denard-span#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drew Storen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota Twins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[B.J. Upton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nationals search for a centerfielder and lead-off hitter is heating up, according to Ken Rosenthal, who says that Washington&#8217;s front office is interested in acquiring outfielder Denard Span from the Minnesota Twins. Rosenthal adds that closer &#8220;[Drew] Storen may be in play.&#8221; This is not the first time that the Nationals have talked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nats&#8217; Trade Talk Heats Up</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/hitting/nats-trade-talk-heats-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike Rizzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bernadina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Rangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Clippard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hitting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s the thinking, or presumably so: because the Nationals are near dead last in hitting in the majors, the powers that be have decided to shift the batting order, moving players in and out of the lead-off spot and juggling through a series of middle-order options in an attempt to &#8220;get the bats going.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peavy (et.al.) Shut Down The Nationals</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/new-york-mets/peavy-et-al-shut-down-the-nationals</link>
		<comments>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/new-york-mets/peavy-et-al-shut-down-the-nationals#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jim Riggleman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Gorzelanny]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Gorzelanny should have been the news on Saturday, but it was Jake Peavy instead. While Gorzelanny threw seven stellar innings of seven hit baseball, Jake Peavy was the pitcher who captured the headlines. Peavy, who has been battling shoulder problems since his arrival in Chicago from San Diego in 2009, tamed the Nationals with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Riggleman&#8217;s Intentional Walk</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/washington-nationals/jim-rigglemans-intentional-walk</link>
		<comments>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/washington-nationals/jim-rigglemans-intentional-walk#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jim Riggleman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the third inning of Wednesday night’s contest vs. Seattle the in-game interview with the manager commenced and revealed, in hind sight, how swiftly things must have disintegrated between Jim Riggleman and Mike Rizzo. Responding to a question by Johnny Holiday regarding where Jason Werth would be batting in the line-up, the then-Skipper said that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Rizzo Throw Riggleman &#8220;Under The Bus?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/ryan-zimmerman/did-rizzo-throw-riggleman-under-the-bus</link>
		<comments>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/ryan-zimmerman/did-rizzo-throw-riggleman-under-the-bus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jayson Werth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a trademark phrase in Washington &#8212; throwing someone &#8220;under the bus&#8221; means that you intentionally sacrifice them to make yourself look better, or save your job. It&#8217;s being used now by partisans of Jim Riggleman to describe what was going to happen to the just-resigned manager of the Washington Nationals in September: Riggleman was [...]]]></description>
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