Revisiting the Stephen Strasburg Shutdown

[@formulahank1250]

It sucks as a contract, but if you look at it as a parting gift for his time with the team, it’s ok. He did what no one had done for nearly a century and led a Washington baseball team to a title

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

You never truly know if a guy is going to be remembered as a World Series MVP. That's just what I think. Anyone who has that award deserves a lot of credit. Like Mike Lowell really comes to mind

[@warlordofbritannia]

Steve Pearce got it in 2018 but David Price really deserved that

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

@@warlordofbritannia I reflect on Pearce all of the time because it was never going to change the outlook on his career. There would be something Poetic and gratifying about Price winning it that is agreeable. If they split the award amongst Eovaldi, Price....and most reluctantly Sale (only for recording the last 3 outs ultimately) I think that would cause people to associate the roving starting pitcher concept with the 2018 Red Sox more intrinsically. I would like that. I guess like the 2001 Diamondbacks it has to be an exceptional case to split up the award. I think it is better than Pearce marginally. But going back to my original commentary. I didnt think Pearce was that special.

[@warlordofbritannia]

@@OH_MY_DOGGG Those are all good, intelligent thoughts I wouldn’t disagree with. To me, the poetic nature of Price winning it outweighs them ‘s all.

[@thatgingermatt]

One of my favorite players ever and in my opinion should be up there with the “what-if” modern greats like David Wright, Tulo, Pedroia, and Lincecum. If these five never got hurt, man I’d love to see that.

[@stopsheeping]

Not trying to rain on your parade, but....DeGrom too!

[@enthusiastofcute]

Lincecum’s pitching style and heavy workloads early in his career pretty much guaranteed injuries

[@adamd5849]

Don't forget Mark Prior

[@Karmy.]

@@adamd5849 throw in Kerry Wood too I would also say Michael Fulmer for the list as well

[@thatgingermatt]

@@stopsheeping very true though for some reason my mind puts him slightly after those guys even though I’m including Strasburg. Couldn’t even tell you why.

[@ticnatz]

Having paid Strasburg $140 million since 2020 (to go 1-4 with an ERA approaching 10.0), and an additional $105 million still to come, the rational state of mind of the Nats instantly comes to mind (they did pay him over $38 million in 2019, so that worked out).....

[@RyanMariners]

I'm not even a Nationals fan, but I can totally feel their pain.

[@dogshxtgames3257]

What pain? They won a chip, that'll cover all the pain.

[@stopsheeping]

@@dogshxtgames3257 Beat me to it.

[@baseballblaster7090]

@@dogshxtgames3257yea but we wasted so much on him we’re paying him 35m to not even play

[@dogshxtgames3257]

@@baseballblaster7090 yea but your team spent hundreds of millions of dollars from 2005-2018 to not get a ring and now you have one!

[@TarmaanProductions]

@@dogshxtgames3257but like we’re trying to see our next era of baseball and this is going to hurt it plus we’re wanna see him healthy

[@CharmCityGamer]

Man I'd give ANYTHING to see Stras healthy again. Poor guy... thanks Mike/SRS!

[@midsummerKNlGHT]

eh sucks for their payroll but flags fly forever and 2019 was an excellent world series there are plenty of other bad contracts without a ring. in time, the contract will run out but the championship is going nowhere.

[@joshuapatrick682]

What people fail to realize is the Nats only promised strasburg 145,000,000 more than the 100,000,000 they had to pay him. There is no sports franchise who would not pay 145 million for that sports championship

[@grumpyrock]

EDITED: The 2019 World Series was such a great series to watch. Great video, just disappointing it glosses over his game 6 start that brought the entire team back from the brink of death. Especially after Scherzer was scratched from game 5, which they then lost.

[@jawbone78]

It was game 5 that Scherzer missed - Joe Ross pitched instead.

[@grumpyrock]

@@jawbone78 ah you’re right. To which they lost game 5 and it out their backs against the wall and Stras had to come up big.

[@warlordofbritannia]

I remember looking at the matchups and thinking “wow, the road team could actually win each game here” I’ve had some crazy accurate predictions before and since but I don’t think anything like that lol

[@jalenking810]

IS THST MLB POWER PROS MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND????? YOU SIR ARE THE GOAT, A MAN OF CULTURE

[@MethaneHorizon]

Best game ever.

[@spoogtastic]

It's very clear that the human body can't sustain throwing so hard for entire seasons. Back off the speed, important your movement and all these incredible pitchers won't be blowing out their arms and shoulders constantly.

[@eugenegreen2285]

how come 20 years ago they could, 30 years ago they could, 40 years ago etc etc etc but they cant now?

[@autkev7112]

@@eugenegreen2285 Steroids.

[@goldeneagleboy3]

as a nats fan what's most painful is how bad i feel for stras- dude has done all he could but just has terrible injury luck. that being said he'll always be known as the 2nd best nats pitcher of all time (behind max scherzer imo) and always be a DC legend.

[@jrose7381]

The sec he flapped his arm you knew right away that wasn’t good

[@valantheflame0193]

Yeah i wouldnt change anything either if i was getting 245M for doing nothing. Seems like a sweet gig, glorified coach for 35M a year.

[@Damuthafuccka]

Great video, but what I liked the most was the music that you used in it. Around 14:10 in the video, this music came on that sounds like the original "Nightmare on Elm street". Who was that?

[@Damuthafuccka]

It's the running man isn't it

[@jrose7381]

Man, that phone call where you are called up for the big show must be fkn awesome.

[@qshot9848]

While it is painful, it was all the way worth it. We got our ring with the final last grasp of our window in an series that will be told for legends. And honestly, with his injuries, I knew it would always be a game of Russian Roulette with his contracts so when the contract was signed, I had a gut feeling time was up but I didn’t mind with how he balled out and put us on his back constantly (2017 Flu Game - Game 4) So while we’re picking up the pieces like the Habs are similarly like us, Rizzo playing the long game may have been the piece we needed through Strasburg to be healthy just long enough for us to grab the ring we yearned for our team’s existence.

[@bryantsteury8910]

If you said you'd get a generational ace for 14 years 400 million and a WS out of it, I think most people take that deal

[@johnpatriots21]

Ik this is a sports channel and all but the music choices you use for the background are AWESOME I see ya over there with the Jeff Buckley good sir 🙏

[@jimmymosierjr.7530]

It worked, I was not happy when they shut him down, but watching Stras dominate in 2019, it was worth it. Such a great WS performance. The guy was nails.

[@willv5671]

Am I crazy or is that MLB power pros music in the background at 2:43

[@jalenking810]

Sure is! Fucking goat

[@elyfel1183]

Looking back... maybe opting for a 6-man rotation would've been a better way to manage his innings. But hey, it all worked out in the end.

[@dangeejr]

4:00 background music on point !!

[@CodeDonut]

okay but at 15:19 altuve just looks hilarious being there xD

[@Reathety]

As a Nats fan I'm not mad that they payed Strasburg even though he may never pitch at a high lvl again. In fact I think he deserves it for what he did for this team.

[@d.b.andrew3663]

The initial montage makes me think y'all got a music budget now. Movin' on up gang! You're in the Big Leagues now!!

[@jamman950]

Yesssss all the good KZbinrs are dropping on my b day

[@ode2491]

As a Syracuse native. It was awesome seeing him pitch here several times

[@joshuapatrick682]

The 2019 Nats championship run got me back into baseball

[@yukikimura8204]

Can you do a video about the 2014 Angels? The only time Trout made it to the postseason.

[@jamesgoss1860]

I remember this well as it opened the door for a championship. The Nats owned the Giants that year, 5-1 I think. I thought it was absolute bonkers that they shut him down. Without him, the Nats blew it to the Cardinals, who then blew it to the Giants.

[@SmoothCriminal12]

Admittedly when Rendon and Strasburg were up for new deals, I thought they should've prioritized Rendon. Mostly since hitting and bullpen was a bigger concern going forward, especially with Corbin and Scherzer still going strong at the time.

[@Sumner1028]

Now both deals look like an albatross for both Strasburg and Rendon. I think Rendon got his bag and said screw baseball. He even admitted baseball wasn't even his favorite sport. The Nats should have let Stras walk due to his injury history. I figured they would get 3 good years and then the decline would come. I was certainly wrong on that one

[@awesome123306]

Love the suber megabasrball clip

[@MrBendylaw]

It's just the way it cooks out with pitchers. I'm tempted to say the first part of the draft evaluation should be 'Did he throw rocks at things from the age of four? Was there ever any discomfort?'. But when you are throwing 95+...

[@joshuapatrick682]

But the Nat still have Victor Robles! Even though they should have kept Michael Taylor. But Dylan Crews will be in a Nat uniform by 2024 sometime

[@CatchCraftInc]

I can’t believe you cut out the “I live in a world made of cardboard” part

[@StarkRavingSports]

based ngl

[@Fantasyremix]

I’ve always thought if they were that concerned about hitting a hard limit, they should have started his season later or given him extra rest, not shut him down early.

[@Extinguisher10]

He's been injured nearly every year of his career that his innings weren't artificially suppressed. I'm not sure the shut down worked. Could it have been worse if they didn't? Possibly! But it's certainly not a definitive success. You used 130 innings and 22 starts are a floor for his "healthy stretch" that's only about two thirds of a season. Sure that's a wild success for Jacob DeGrom, but for anyone else that's not saying much. 🤪 Anyway, great video! :)

[@michaelroche4960]

@13:26 is definitely meant to be 209 innings and not 109.... Cmon guys I caught that on the first watch and I'm not a Nats fan whatsoever... Nobody is leading the team in innings for a playoff team at 109..... Not sure how that one was missed...

[@stuffbenlikes]

The JLU analogy brought tears to my eyes.

[@rackstraw]

"I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard. Always taking constant care not to break something. To break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control, even for a moment, or someone could die."

[@benk6153]

PowerPros music 😍

[@enthusiastJD]

Nationals fan here, absolutely wild last decade and a half and there’s no team Id rather root for. The curly W will be back and there will be whole lotta red

[@davidbernier5782]

Cool video! But what’s with the creepy ambient music?

[@JoseJimenez-vc7we]

3:41-4:09 what's the song??? I'm trying to look for it

[@StarkRavingSports]

there’s almost always a soundtrack link in the descriptions of our videos :)

[@JoseJimenez-vc7we]

@@StarkRavingSports oh ok thank you I loved the montage

[@bluebellysports]

Amazing promise. "What could have been."

[@thedude3065]

The man sacrificed his future to ensure that it would be spent with a World Series ring

[@eugenegreen2285]

i wish i could make $35M a year to work 10 days at my job, I would make that sacrifice.

[@cullendougher-7224]

You do not speak for us nationals fans, 1) soto and tendon had nearly just as much affect on our World Series win as strausberg yet we were ok with letting them go so the whole here’s 200+ million for a ws win is bs. 2)we gave a super max contract to a aging injury prone player. 3)we gave him the vast majority of our payroll while allowing younger more profitable players leave or be traded for crumbs, sure let’s take the injury prone aging pitcher over a generational prospect and multi year all star shortstop. I love strausberg but giving him that contract was the most idiotic decision we could have done

[@paulgroeger33]

And now he's called it a career injuries suck

[@OshiZlebaseball]

MLB Life soundtrack from MLB Power Pros

[@aaronsteindler3245]

I don't disagree with limiting a young pitcher's workload, but idk how you can shut down your best pitcher during the playoffs. Nats should have limited his workload in September and save him for October. They could have possibly won 2 rings that decade instead of 1.

[@Mervalon1]

I keep tellin ppl this tho, Stras was good in his college days, but his mechanics had the dreaded Inverted W, and outta sync, which suprised me how he could touch 100-102 with that, more than likely it was more synced up but the W never went away. If he got his foot down earlier he could’ve touched higher velo maybe, but also have less stress and potentially better command

[@Mervalon1]

I want Stras to come back tho, I hope maybe a role and a recovery could happen

[@Vic-cx8zb]

I am a Nats fan and this sucks

[@matthewdanahy9411]

What's with the all pink? Blinded my eyes

[@HutchIsOnYT]

Me as a Pirates fan when Skeenes on screen: 😁 Me as a Pirates fan when you showed Strasburg’s debut: 🫥

[@3xzsucof]

Do a video on Bryson Stott

[@ItsTank_]

As some Washington fans like to say, he sacrificed the rest of his career for the Nats to win the World Series

[@joshm.5340]

God damn I miss Joba.

[@chriscreaturo8809]

I remember watching that series with my dad and both of us thinking how dumb this was

[@donney-]

Just one of the many terrible contracts of the last decade

[@YogGroove]

75 years? WTF you talking about? There were (new) Senators there in 1970.

[@Gamer_Tanks]

Strachburg ain't never coming back

[@wyattmeyer4509]

DO I HEAR MLB POWER PROS MUSIC?!?!?

[@enthusiastJD]

Eh its like by time we are good again Strasburg's contract wont really matter

[@VaCRAYtion]

3rd video on the guy in 6 months. And they are all very similar…

[@Moth665]

Can you make a video about how the Pittsburgh Pirates suck again?

[@reginald1106]

SDSU legend 💯 standup 😎😎

[@PoeticProphetic]

I like to think Stephen Strasburg doesn’t wash his hands because he’s evil 😈

[@kaffarashortskabhi]

s/o livy dunne

[@georgepress1261]

Imo, the nats still mess up the shutdown. They won 98 games and was the best team in the nl. You figure strasburg would had started games 1 and 5. The nats had a 6-0 in that game, I would like to imagine he wouldn’t blow that. Also they could had use him as a reliever. But the 2012 shutdown didn’t protect him from injuries. He was hurt a lot. Grant it no tommy John but would 5 to 7 starts a year. He pitch 200 inning 2 time ( 2014 and 19). Funny you show strasburg greatest then they actually let him pitch in 2019. But because hecc be won a World Series mvp in 2019, doesn’t mean that the shutdown work. It didn’t it cost the nats a championship, and I’m a Phillies fan saying this

[@CornyVR.]

Strausburg’s career reminds me of Lightning McQueen fading career.

[@chriscampbell3417]

As someone who lives in STL… I was ecstatic when Strasburg was shut down 😂

[@ccsportscollectables8248]

Hi

[@annoyingrat3710]

Great, another content creator promoting gambling to children… oh where has the dignity of some people gone…

[@fernandourcuyo4357]

W

[@tommyallen5761]

Not even going to make a mention of all the Astros' cheating in the 2019 WS?

[@ederlikessoccer]

They lost all home games. If they cheated they would of won at least one game.

[@Trumpisscum-420]

Wasn't that 2017 that they cheated?

[@BrettShadow]

Cool editing with the highlights oversaturated in various hue... it's nice to not be able to see anything while listening to shifty royalty free music with no narration.

[@Sumner1028]

That a hole dylan crews not wanting to play for the pirates ticked me off as a nats fan. Maybe if he wasn't a brat, the nats could have gotten skenes. Skenes will be a stud and crews a bust. Players who say they refuse to play certain places are prima donnas and the only who had a legit beef was john elway

[@diggsfather]

pirates being a cheap organization and crews' likely record setting signing bonus is a more likely reason to me

[@Sumner1028]

@@diggsfather Yeah well unfortunately the Nationals are suckers when it comes to Borass clients. They shouldn't give him a dime over slot. F Dylan Crews. He's overrated. Much rather have had Skenes

[@Trumpisscum-420]

The Pirates are a garbage franchise that struggle to properly develop pitchers and aren't gonna pay them when the time comes. I can't blame the man, i wouldn't want to be drafted by the Pirates either.

[@DamienVee-nw7te]

i have a really fat pebis