The last word out of Spring Training on Stephen Strasburg, who is progressing towards his return from last summer’s surgery for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, was that the now 33-year-old righty was tinkering with returning to using a windup, five years after he ditched it, and just started pitching exclusively out of the stretch.
“There’s a flow to the windup, and he has liked how it’s felt,” Nationals’ pitching Coach Jim Hickey told Washington Post writer Jesse Dougherty, when asked about some things they were experimenting with as the 2009 No. 1 overall pick worked in West Palm Beach, FL.