Jayson Werth and Bryce Harper will stand out for Washington Nationals during 2013-MLB Part 1
There are some players that performed well last season. However, they could not achieve the heights of success owing to various reasons. Next year is ideal for them in many ways to complete unfinished business.
Jayson Werth and Bryce Harper are least likely to face hurdles they came across during 2012. What stopped them from putting up record breaking performances is not going to appear again.
Thanks to the complete recovery from injury by Werth, he is all set to slam some home runs as consistently as he did during the last part of the previous season.
Similarly, Harper does not need to join the Nationals after the passage of a number of games of the season as he is an undisputed Opening Day roster candidate now.
By the time the last season started, Werth was touted as the backbone of the Nationals' offence. Given his power to slam home runs and do so consistently, there was hardly any doubt about his credentials.
He began his expedition on a positive note but unfortunately as he got going, he sustained an injury, which kept him out from the season, for a number of months.
On return, Werth proved how destructive he was to be for the opposition, had he not got injured.
He made it clear that the Nationals missed a pride that he was to bring for the organisation in the form of being named for the All-Star Game or being awarded other laurels.
The way he resumed his expedition and delivered an incredible offensive shows at the plate, the fans were justified for assuming that he was to be their Silver Slugger winner and probably the Most Valuable Player (MVP) for the ASG, if he had played the complete
first half of the season.
While some may believe it is an exaggeration of his more or less above average performances late in the season, a number of factors suggests it is not actually the case. He appeared genuinely a super natural force after coming back from the injury.
The critics to my assumptions about Werth need to understand that he did not play down the order in the line-up, which is his original spot. Instead, he played as leadoff hitter. Everybody knows that from leadoff hitters one can hardly expect a flurry of
home runs at the beginning of the innings.
In-fact, they are asked by their managers, more often than not, to just load the bases and try to bring other batters at the plate.
Their job is to strike a hit and man the first base and then complete the journey until the home plate.
Werth did not live up to this definition of the role of a leadoff hitter, largely.
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To be Continued in Part 2....
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