If you didn’t read Washington Post writer Jesse Dougherty’s feature story on Nationals’ right-hander Stephen Strasburg when it was published, you really should go read it right now.
In the article by the WaPost’s Nationals beat writer, he talks about the 34-year-old, ‘09 No. 1 overall pick and ‘19 World Series MVP confronting his own baseball mortality, and what the future holds after multiple surgeries in the last few seasons (for carpal tunnel neuritis and a another procedure for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome), which have limited him to eight starts in the last three seasons and just 31 1⁄3 IP on the mound in the majors since 2019:
“Every time I’ve had an injury, I felt like I was going to be the best there is coming back,” Strasburg, 34, told The Washington Post this week.