About a month into his time on the DL with right shoulder inflammation, Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo said the time Joe Ross missed might end up being a blessing in disguise.
“We were going to have to limit Joe’s innings somewhere in the middle of the season anyway,” Rizzo explained in an early August MLB Network Radio interview, “so putting him on the DL and kind of spoon-feeding him through this month I think will allow him to pitch for us and perform for us throughout the rest of the season without any kind of limits or parameters put on him.