Next Season's Roster: Outside Looking In - Pitchers Edition

By Joe Drugan of The Nats Blog:

Today is the penultimate edition of Next Season's Roster, and we're going to show the predictions for pitchers on the outside of the Washington Nationals organizatoin looking in. That means those who won't be in the organization to start next season.

Tom Gorzelanny was traded to the Nats last offseason for Michael Burgess, among others. Burgess was picked in the compensation round of the 2007 MLB draft but didn't pan out quite as the organization hoped. Well, neither did Gorzelanny. Hoping to get the 2007 version of the veteran lefty didn't quite work out for the Nats, as all the other seasons showed their ugly heads. Gorzelanny's 4.03 ERA doesn't quite quantify his ineffectiveness during the season, and he'll be due somewhere around $2.8 million this season through arbitration. My guess: it won't get that far and Tom Gorzelanny will be DFA'd this winter. That kind of money is too much for a long reliever, which is what Tom is, at best.

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