Washington Nationals uncertain of Stephen Strasburg’s standing for 2023 season

NEW YORK — Stephen Strasburg’s standing for 2023 is up within the air after a collection of accidents that restricted him to at least one begin this season, Washington Nationals basic supervisor Mike Rizzo mentioned Tuesday.

“It is nonetheless somewhat little bit of a thriller,” Rizzo mentioned concerning the 2019 World Collection MVP earlier than the Nationals had been scheduled to play a doubleheader on the New York Mets. “I do know that he is working laborious strengthening his core and the opposite elements of his physique. We’re simply going to should see. With the kind of surgical procedure and rehab that he is had, it is unfamiliar to us. It is unfamiliar to lots of people. We’ll should take it daily.”

The 34-year-old right-hander has thrown a complete of 31⅓ innings throughout simply eight begins over the previous three seasons mixed. He had carpal tunnel surgical procedure in 2020, then wanted an operation to right thoracic outlet syndrome in 2021.

After his solely begin of 2022, he went again on the injured listing with a stress response of the ribs.

“We’ll should see the place the rehab course of takes us in a while within the winter,” Rizzo mentioned. “We’ll monitor him. He is native, so we’ll see him on a regular basis and we’ll see the place he is at going into spring coaching mode.”

Strasburg is a three-time All-Star who signed a $245 million contract after serving to Washington win a championship in 2019.

He’s 113-62 with a 3.24 ERA for his profession.

Assembly with reporters towards the top of a tough season — Washington entered Tuesday with a majors-worst and Nationals-worst report of 55-104 and shipped away the workforce’s greatest participant, outfielder Juan Soto, on the commerce deadline — Rizzo talked about doing “an post-mortem of the group.”

“I have a look at the season as a disappointment. I’ve all the time mentioned that you’re what your report says you might be, and our report says we are the worst workforce within the league proper now. It is laborious to argue with that,” Rizzo mentioned. “The flip aspect of that’s we’re in a course of.”

Rizzo and supervisor Dave Martinez got contract extensions throughout the season. Martinez mentioned Tuesday his whole teaching employees will return subsequent 12 months.