Sunday at Nationals Winterfest, Stephen Strasburg made the rounds with full facial hair and a presumably healed elbow.
His right elbow, a $175 million anchor in the Washington Nationals’ future, had bothered him last season. His forearm tightened with every slider he threw after the all-star break. Eventually, a small tear in the pronator tendon developed, and everyone was scared when they saw Strasburg shake his arm and walk off the mound in the third inning Sept. 7.
Doctors had told him the pain in his arm would subside with rest, and the small tendon tear would heal.