The Washington Nationals had worked so hard to overhaul the physical care of their players. They signed a deal with a local medical company in the offseason. Fired the previous training staff. Even held a press conference to show their commitment to new-age thinking in player care and tout the trainers and doctors who would now massage and mend their players after 2015 was filled with injuries.
Yet, the best doctors can’t stop freak things. They can’t prevent starter Stephen Strasburg from a flexor mass strain and a partially torn pronator tendon in his right elbow in September.