When the Washington pitcher was at his best, few have ever been better. That’s what I’ll remember.
Strasburg, a workout fanatic with the physique of an NFL tight end, has sacrificed ribs, tendons and muscles that he’ll never get back to make a return the past three seasons. The result? Tons of pain. One win.
For many years I have been mildly, but persistently, annoyed by the inability of many to get a reasonable perspective on Strasburg. His pitching should be viewed aesthetically and emotionally as well as statistically. What Strasburg leaves behind, all 6-foot-5, 239 pounds of him, is the memory of one of the most intimidating hurlers, and one of the most dominant October pitchers, on record. The biomechanics that produced those memories also wrecked his pitching arm. He blew out his elbow in his 12th MLB start and never threw as fast again. Everything he accomplished was with two feet knocked off his fastball.
John Keats, one candidate for greatest poet in the English language, died when he was 25. Now, 202 years later, no one begins evaluating him by saying if only he hadn’t had tuberculosis, he would have written more poems.
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