Washington Nationals looking to trade Nyjer Morgan?
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In the wake of Washington Nationals’ outfielder Nyjer Morgan’s 15-game suspension (7-games for throwing a ball at a fan and 8-games for his recent fight), Tim Kurkjian of ESPN thinks the Nationals will end up moving Morgan.
Kurkjian says that Morgan has progressively gotten more angry over the year. Part of the reason is because he’s 30-years-old, he’s not making a lot of money compared to others, he wants his career to go faster and he was recently dropped to eighth in the batting order. The Nationals now have to decide if he’s wroth keeping around or moving him.
“The bottom line is that the Nationals will have to look into the situation and say if this guy is worth keeping around or is it time to look into start moving him,” Kurkjian said via ESPN Video. “And I think they’re going to do that, and I think they probably should.”
Morgan is making $426,500 this season, and he’s under team control for next season should the Nationals decide to keep him around. He’s definitely a talented outfielder and speedy base runner, so he has value to other teams, but it’ll come down to whether or not another club wants to inherit a potential time bomb.
Morgan is hitting .257/.317/.318 and is 33-for-48 in successful stolen bases this season in 116 games.

