Will the Nats really shut Strasburg down when September comes...

[Smoke]

and they're in the middle of a pennant race? Or has like a 5-game division lead or something like that? I just can't see that happening. Especially since they've never even came close to sniffing the playoffs ever since they moved to D.C.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Ansolutely.

The risk is not worth it.

They were talking to Rizzo today about it on a dc sports show. He said 160 innings, not one more.

 

[gobigred]

Especially since he is coming off Tommy John surgery, it isnt worth risking his future by trying to push it to far this year