The 2012 MLB season is still a pregnancy with a due date six weeks out. Doctors have performed ultrasounds with ZiPS projections and Pecota cards and so us parents have some idea what's coming. But until the actual season's birth, all we can do is dream. As parents, we dream big. While the child is still in the womb, we think about college and whether our child will be artistic or athletic. But there is always fear. Will the child adjust well in this daunting world? Will he or she play well with others and succeed beyond our expectations? All those emotions are similar to dreaming about the 2012 season and Stephen Strasburg. To carry the idea just a little further, Strasburg has already come out of the womb and taken a few steps. But he keeps going back to the incubator. There was tremendous excitement when he made his debut in 2010 and made the Pittsburgh Pirates look like a bad little league team. He gave us 68 innings that season and then his elbow popped and back to the...
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Strasburg to have innings limited
The Nationals' 2009 No. 1 pick is expected to be fully healthy this season after missing almost of 2011 following Tommy John surgery, but reports suggest he'll be limited to 150-160 innings this year.
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Stephen Strasburg gets jersey retired at SDSU
(Stephen Strasburg's #37 was retired by SDSU on Friday night. Photo via @AmandaJoy2117)
So Stephen Strasburg had his jersey number (37, of course!) retired by San Diego State on Friday night before the baseball team's season opener against Washington. There's Baseball Jesus himself, above, accepting the honor.
Apparently Stras threw out the first pitch...
Video of the Stephen Strasburg jersey retirement ceremony, etc.
On Friday night, Stephen Strasburg had his number retired by SDSU. Here's video of the ceremony, above, via goaztecs.com.
On Sunday, Stephen Strasburg arrived for Spring Training with the Nationals, apparently relaxed and happy to be "just another donkey", with a smile on his face and a clear mind:
"My mind is a lot clearer. I just go out there and throw...
Nationals won't have Strasburg skip starts
Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo says Stephen Strasburg's innings limit won't cause the pitcher to skip starts this season.
The 23-year-old missed most of last season while recovering from elbow-ligament replacement surgery. He returned for five starts in September.
Rizzo says: ''There's not going to be a whole lot of tinkering going on. We'...
Nationals to go easy on Strasburg
Stephen Strasburg will follow the same path as Washington Nationals teammate Jordan Zimmermann in his comeback from elbow-ligament replacement surgery.
Nationals manager Davey Johnson said Monday that Strasburg will be limited to 150-160 innings this season. Zimmermann threw 161 1/3 innings last year following surgery and hopes to reach 200 this season.
The 23-year-old Strasburg...
Where will Stephen Strasburg be 5 years from now?
Where oh where will Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg be five years from now? Shagging fly balls in some desolate minor league/rehab field? NL Cy Young award winner? Only time will tell, although I’m hoping its the latter of the two. Strasburg age 24, is definitely the highest touted pitcher in MLB history, and he actually
Strasburg eager to earn keep on Nats' staff
Nats right-hander Stephen Strasburg arrived at Space Coast Stadium on Sunday and said that he doesn't want to be given any special treatment. He wants to be the guy the team can rely on every fifth day.
Davey Says Nats Have More Gifted Athletes Than 83-84 Mets
This, from Adam Rubin:
Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson was asked whether the current Nationals team, with young stars such as Stephen Strasburg, reminds him of the 1983-84 Mets, who were a couple of years away from winning a World Series.
“This club has more potential than that club,” Johnson replied Monday at Nationals camp in Viera. “It just has...
Strasburg anticipates season free of doubts
VIERA, Fla. — His first year, Stephen Strasburg was the phenom. The guy with the golden arm. The biggest question was whether the Nationals would allow their prized pitcher to skip the minor leagues. The second year, he was a spectator. The road back from Tommy John ligament reconstruction surgery ...
Strasburg to throw between 150-160 innings
Stephen Strasburg will follow the same path as Washington Nationals teammate Jordan Zimmermann in his comeback from elbow-ligament replacement surgery.
Pitcher, doctor change baseball forever
The trajectory of the 2012 Major League Baseball season -- when big-name pitchers like Stephen Strasburg, Adam Wainwright and Joba Chamberlain are continuing comebacks from major elbow surgery -- could well have been determined one July evening at Chavez Ravine nearly 40 years ago, when a Los Angeles Dodgers ace lefty reared back, fired a sinker and felt his left arm go dead.
At...
Nationals say Strasburg won't skip starts despite limit on innings
Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo says Stephen Strasburg's innings limit won't cause the pitcher to skip starts this season.
GM: Nationals won't have Strasburg skip starts
Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo says Stephen Strasburg's innings limit won't cause the pitcher to skip starts this season.
Nats will limit Strasburg but he won't skip starts
VIERA, Fla. (AP) -- Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo says Stephen Strasburg's innings limit won't cause the pitcher to skip starts this season.
Nats not going to tinker with rotation
Even though Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg is on an innings limit this season, the Nationals are not planning to use a six-man rotation or even think about having Strasburg start the season a month later. Strasburg is slated to pitch 160 innings in 2012.
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