PT TOMORROW: NL East—The burning of Washington

 

Washington Nationals

The Nationals are in disarray. At 5-9, they’re bringing up the rear in the NL East. They have so many holes to fill that it would take a battalion of little Dutch boys to plug them all. But this is MLB baseball, not 19th-century Holland, so even the most casual reading of child labor laws wouldn’t solve the current crisis.

Stephen Strasburg (RHP, WAS) couldn’t be felled by tearing an evolutionarily useless body part, but he did succumb to more mundane shoulder inflammation and was placed on the 10-day IL retroactive to April 15. The news was not terribly shocking, both because of his reputation as a magnet for injuries and his recent struggles (4 IP, 8 H, 7 ER, 3 HR, 5 BB, 3 K, down 2 mph).

Patrick Corbin (LHP,...

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