WASHINGTON, D.C.: Dusty Baker told Sirius/XM MLB Network Radio hosts Casey Stern and Cliff Floyd last month that he thought Stephen Strasburg’s stint on the Disabled List in late-July/mid-August was at least in part responsible for the right-hander’s strong second half of the 2017 campaign.
Strasburg missed close to a month on the Disabled list with a nerve impingement in his right elbow, but he returned to finish out the regular season strong, with numbers that earned him the NL Pitcher of the Month award for September.