Davey Martinez acknowledged in announcing that Stephen Strasburg was likely done for the season, with surgery for carpal tunnel neuritis scheduled for later this week, that the injury wasn’t a common one for pitchers.
“This is something that it was very weird,” the Washington Nationals’ third-year skipper said on Saturday afternoon.
“He was complaining about his wrist, and then next thing you know his thumb started going numb on him, and he couldn’t feel the baseball, that’s how it all started.