Interesting Non-Tendered Names

So, on MLB.com's official list of the non-tendered free agents, there are a few pretty interesting names who the Nats might be tempted to take a look at.

Pitchers
The two who stick out as possibilities here are former Blue Jay Josh Towers and former Cub Mark Prior. Towers has immaculate control, but tends to get hit pretty hard as a result. Of course, he's also spent the last several years in the AL East. I'm told they have a few decent batters there. Maybe in a weakened NL East, he'd be able to produce better. Prior's rap is well known: he's got stuff, but he can't stay healthy at all. At all. Not even a little bit. So he could be pretty good, but he's another "if he can stay healthy..." candidate, and we've already got lots of those. Still, might be worth a shot.

Catchers
Miguel Olivo and Johnny Estrada are both on there. Estrada is probably a better hitter, though his numbers dropped off some with Milwaukee last year. Olivo is way better defensively, and might make more sense as a backup for Lo Duca if Flores is to be sent to AAA.

Fielding
The Astros, just having acquired Miguel Tejada, felt themselves no longer in need of Adam Everett's services, which is interesting to me, because of what Chris over at Capitol Punishment was talking about last week. Take a look at his article, and yeah, this might make sense.

That's all for now, sorry about the sparsity of posts recently - finals are trying to murder me where I stand.


Updated, 1:01 PM -
There goes Adam Everett. That's the fastest I've gotten something wrong yet!