Open Letter to Jason Bergmann

Dearest Bergy,

As your unapologetic biggest fan, I'm so glad to see you back with the Nationals and having success.

I know, Mike Rizzo hates you, Manny treats you as a mop-up man despite the fact that you've been more effective than pretty much anyone else in the bullpen. It's more or less inevitable at this point that barring a Rizzo firing your career will have to continue somewhere else.

Still, even if the team doesn't know it, at least this blogger knows that you belong on this team. In fact, no team in baseball is more in need of your particular brand of solidly unspectacular below-average adequacy. Yeah, you'll crap the bed every three or four times when you struggle with command, have a couple flyballs float out, and/or face a particularly tough run of left-handed hitters.

But it's absurd that you ever trailed the likes of Wil Ledezma, Logan Kensing, Daniel Cabrera, Scott Olsen, Kip Wells, or Mike Hinckley on the depth chart.

So until Rizzo finds another hard-throwing groundball pitcher with no command whatsoever, we're glad to have you.

Sincerely,

FJB