“I think we’re getting close,” Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Sports Junkies this past Wednesday, two days before Stephen Strasburg made his third rehab start as he works his way back from last summer’s season-ending surgery for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome.
“Without any setbacks, I think we’re getting closer, definitely,” Rizzo added.
“Now it’s a point of extending his pitches out to six innings or 100 or so pitches, and when he gets to that, and he feels good about that, then we’ll see, if there are no setbacks.