Hot house flower. Sunny and 75. Delicate Flower. Sweat Hog. The first three of those are nicknames for Stephen Strasburg tossed around the internet. The fourth... that’s actually Dusty Baker, and it’s relevant to the current conversation about Washington’s right-hander.
The others... well, they sound like people who are still angry about the “shutdown”.
“He’s kind of a sweat hog,” Baker told reporters in Cincinnati when Strasburg struggled in a July start against the Reds and the manager worried he might be cramping up.