Quick Notes: No Stephen Strasburg Shutdown Part II per Mike Rizzo
On his regular Wednesday morning interview with 106.7, the fan Washington Nationals GM Mike Rizzo was asked if shutting down Stephen Strasburg even if healthy is possible.
On his regular Wednesday morning interview with 106.7, the fan Washington Nationals GM Mike Rizzo was asked if shutting down Stephen Strasburg even if healthy is possible.
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“I think it’s an oversimplification; that’s how I’ll describe it," Rizzo told The Sports Junkies. "When athletes and players and pitchers are healthy, they’re going to pitch. That’s what they do for a living, that’s what they get paid for, so when we deem – Joe Ross and Stras and anybody else that’s on the (IL), which is a long list of guys – when we deem them ready to participate in the big leagues and to help us in the big leagues, they’ll be brought up just like in any other season because that’s what we do.
“That’s what these guys get paid for, and that’s what they want to do. I think that a healthy player, a healthy pitcher, if you want to hold them back through the year they wouldn’t let you because they’re healthy and they pitch for a living and they’re competitors and that’s what they want to do.”
You can listen to the whole interview here:
