“I think from day one, when I first signed here, it was a very new experience for me,” Stephen Strasburg explained after he and the Washington Nationals agreed on a 7-year/$175M extension in May of 2016.
Strasburg, then 26, was set to hit free agency after the ‘16 season, but he and the Nats worked out what his agent, Scott Boras, made clear was a player-driven deal to keep him in D.C.
”Being from Southern California, that was something that I knew,” Strasburg said.
“But over the last few years, the city of D.