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San Diego State's offense gave him just one run to work with Friday night, so Stephen Strasburg tossed a complete-game shutout against New Mexico, striking out 14 and walking just one versus the best-hitting team in the Mountain West Conference. With just 50 days until the 2009 draft, Strasburg is 8-0 with a 1.28 ERA and 121/12 K/BB ratio in nine starts.
Washington has the worst pitching in baseball so far this season, allowing 75 runs in 11 games for an ugly 6.38 ERA. However, the Nationals are expected to call up 23-year-old top prospect Jordan Zimmermann to start tonight's game against the Braves and will have first crack at Strasburg on June 9, so they could be just a few months away from having two extremely promising young starters atop their rotation.
Hopefully that will be of some solace to Nationals fans as the team does its best to lock up the No. 1 overall pick for 2010 as well.
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If the Nationals don't take Strasburg the fanbase, all six of them, will burn DC to the ground before the Tea Partiers even have a chance.
Do you think that the Nationals might pass on Strasburg because of signability issues, like the Twins did with Mark Prior? That decision worked out well for the Twins, but I don't think people could have predicted Prior's arm troubles and Strasburg is even more dominant than Prior ever was. Also, I have never seen Strasburg pitch but I have heard about him. What makes him so dominant?
He throws 103mph heat and LOCATES it.
He reaches 103mph with his heat, and LOCATES it!!!