Jim Hickey, noting that it is odd given his long history in the game, came into camp with the Washington Nationals this spring unfamiliar (at least personally) with the majority of the new pitchers he was going to be working with in his role as the new pitching coach in D.C.
His first impressions of 32-year-old, 11-year veteran Stephen Strasburg, who’s back in Spring Training and building towards 2021 after making just two starts last season before he had to have surgery to fix an issue with carpal tunnel neuritis?
“What I see so far is extremely — just a meticulous, dedicated kind of a guy.