Throughout the offseason, The Nats Blog will look back at every player’s 2012 season to summarize and analyze his performance, and we’ll look ahead to his possible role in 2013. We’ll go from #1 Steve Lombardozzi all the way to #63 Henry Rodriguez until Spring Training. Enjoy.
Stephen Strasburg was one of the hottest topics in baseball throughout the 2012 season because of his controversial innings limit, but he didn’t waste the innings he was given.
Of his 28 starts for the Nationals last season, Strasburg made 20 quality starts (pitching at least six innings and allowing no more than three runs). He finished with a 3.16 ERA, a .230 batting average against, and a 1.15 WHIP. He had the highest strikeout rate on the Nationals staff (11.3 per nine innings), and his 197 strikeouts ranked seventh in the National League. For much of the early part of the season, he and Gio Gonzalez were battling each other for the first- and second-most strikeouts in the NL, contributing to the ...
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February 04, 2013
