Friday, March 2, 2012

25 CFs since 2005?

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'via Blog this'

That's what they say. And sadly it sounded right.

2005
Wilkerson 88
Wilson 54
Church 12
Byrd 2
Chavez 2

2006
Byrd 44
Church 42
Logan 25
Escobar 19
Jackson 15
Watson 7
Anderson 5
Kearns 4
Matos 1

2007
Logan 79
Church 39
Langerhans 33
Maxwell 5
Watson 5
Kearns 1

2008
Milledge 134
Harris 14
Bernadina 12
Dukes 1

2009
Harris 53
Morgan 47
Dukes 32
Maxwell 20
Milledge 5
Kearns 2
Patterson 1
Bernadina 1
Padilla

2010
Morgan 128
Bernadina 20
Maxwell 13
Taveras 1

2011
Ankiel 84
Bernadina 50
Werth 17
Hairston 6
Bixler 4
Nix

I found 27. If you count starts only it's 25. Laynce Nix and Jorge Padilla are listed as playing the position but not having any starts.

Only twice in the last 6 years has a player started over 100 games in CF for the Nats in the same season.

Of the 27, only 11 played in more than one season. (Church, Byrd, Logan, Watson, Kearns, Maxwell, Milledge, Harris, Bernadina, Dukes, Morgan)

Bernadina the only one who started in 4 different seasons or more. Church and Maxwell had starts in three different seasons. The others, two only.

Added 5 to the list just last year.

Totals
Morgan 175
Milledge 139
Logan 104
Church 93
Wilkerson 88
Ankiel 84
Bernadina 83
Harris 67
Wilson 54
Byrd 46
Maxwell 38
Langerhans 33
Dukes 33
Escobar 19
Werth 17
Damien Jackson 15
Watson 12
Kearns 7
Hairston 6
Anderson M. 5
Bixler 4
Chavez 2
Matos 1
Patterson 1
Tavares 1
Padilla 1*
Nix 1*


Of course, out of context this seems like a lot. I'm not ambitious enough to compare it to other teams CF's over the last 6 years or to another position to see if this is way out of the ordinary.

And finally, it really doesn't tell us anything we don't already know . . . CF has been a disaster from the beginning.