SPECULATOR: Playing Time Today—of the future
Sep 15 2016
As the 2016 season winds down, our thoughts here at the Speculator head to next season. We dust off the ol' crystal ball, and look ahead at what you might see covered in our Playing Time Today column on September 16, 2017...
National League
Nationals | Stephen Strasburg's year officially over
BHQ take: Strasburg ends the 2017 season with just 47 IP, 3 DL stints for various elbow problems, and a murky outlook heading into 2018. At this point, despite repeated insistence from the Nationals that his UCL is intact, one has to wonder whether the only path forward for Strasburg is reconstructive surgery. At least that would fix the problem once and for all, rather than going through rehabs that seem to cap out at 2-3 starts per cycle,...
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