Remember the rumored, planned Stephen Strasburg retirement ceremony which was to take place this past September in Nationals Park, officially ending the 2009 No. 1 overall pick’s playing career after multiple surgeries and difficult recoveries proved too much to overcome for the now 35-year-old right-hander?
And then it didn’t happen.
And then it turned somewhat weird when Washington’s Managing Principal Owner Mark Lerner made statement on the whole situation, which was, according to GM Mike Rizzo, misinterpreted as some sort of challenge to Strasburg .