Stephen Strasburg admits his hand is still not 100 percent
by Mike Maher | Tue, Aug 11th 8:52am EDT
Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg allowed five earned runs in his season debut on Sunday and later admitted in a Zoom call that his hand is still not feeling 100%. From Byron Kerr's story on MASNSports.com, Strasburg says, “To be honest, I felt it. I don’t know if it was necessarily like fatigue or just not having necessarily the stamina built up quite yet. But it’s something where I don’t think I’m doing any long-term harm on it. But it does have an impact on being able to throw the baseball and being able to commit to pitches. That’s something I haven’t quite figured out how to pitch through it yet, so I think the goal is to continue to get built up and get the pitch count up to where that won’t be flaring up over the course of the start.” (Byron Kerr, MASN Sports)
Fantasy Impact:
Those quotes from Strasburg are pretty telling as they indicate that the nerve issue is his hand is still present and that he is attempting to learn to pitch through it. It's still possible that Strasburg rounds into form as he starts to build up his strength and shake off some of the rust of a long layoff, but hearing that his hand is still bothering him is a concerning development.
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