Are you familiar with Schrodinger's Cat? If not the simple explanation is that. Lets say you put a cat in a completely sealed off box where you cannot see anything going on inside of the box. Inside of the box there is a vile of a toxic (deadly) poison. The vile is protected by a detector which will only release the toxin if it detects a quantum decay. Lets say that quantity that is decaying has an equal chance of decaying or not decaying. That means your cat has an equal chance of being alive and being dead. This is one of the more well known tenants of quantum physics, that something can exist in two states, or that all possibilities can happen are are happening because the box is “closed”.
That is the way I feel the Nationals pitching staff can be. They have signed a lot of pitchers this off season that can be very good and cause a lot of problems for opposing pitchers. Yet all of these pitchers have an equally dangerous side that can be devastating for the Nationals. This trend will continue as they are about to sign Wang (someone I really hoped the Mets would sign at this rate but whatever). So taking Wang aside some of the other pitchers that fall under this umbrella are Matt Capps, Bruney, Guardado, and Speier. On top of that they signed a reliable Marquis and they will also be testing the waters with Strasburg and Zimmermann (not Zimmerman).
This could be a rather good pitching staff, and at the same time it could be abmysmal. The box will have to be openned and that box is 2010 baseball season.
