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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | 2:46pm
Stephen Strasburg: The Real Deal or Hype
Are u a believer?
I know we dont give you too much baseball talk here in the Nation and with the NBA finals going on why should we. But as a sports fan you’ve probably been flooded w/stories regarding the pitching phenom Steve Strasburg. Strasburg was drafted #1 by the Washington Nationals in 09 and has been hailed by some as having some of the best “stuff” they’ve ever seen. After months of hype and a short stint in the minors Starsburg finally had his Major Leaugue debut yesterday against the Pittsburgh Pirates (Big up Gleb and Karboso) and boy did he deliver. Strasburg had 14 strikeouts and no walks in seven innings pitched. He allowed only two runs and only threw 94 pitches retiring the last ten batters he faced, w/seven consecutive strikeouts. Long story short he did his thing! I didn’t see the game but when I saw the highlights and read the stat line I was thoroughly impressed. The thing is especially in baseball when a guy comes from the minors and there’s really no scouting report on him they tend to do fairly well. You see it all the time w/hitters who hit a home run the first at bat in the majors. Will Strasburg get figured out by teams once they see his stuff a few times and develop real scouting reports, or is this kid the real deal? Sound off Nation!
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As a the biggest baseball fan there is I’ll say hell yeah. As a huge Mets fan I’ll say I hope not.
7 IP, 14K, 0BB, 2R, 94 Pitches and struck out the last 7 batters to face him while throwing 101 MPH at times.
Yikes.
I dunno Juan, you got some competition from me for biggest baseball fan…
The guy has great stuff and he is poised and composed. His fastball, like you said topped 100 MPH and his curve ball is 12 – 6…
One analyst on CNNSI made a great point: he wasn’t pitching that great at the start of the game. After the HR he gave up, he seemed to wake up and dominated after that, giving up one hit over the last four innings and striking out damn near every batter.
I hope he and that 17 year old kid they just drafted #1 develop properly, so that the Nats can have a good team and compete in the NL East…(I just wanna see good baseball!)
real deal so far
The real deal
I seen him play a minor league game since it isn’t to far from me and this kid is commanding, he takes charge on the mound, throwing damn near 95 every pitch…. real deal… wish he played for the phills
Me too. I saw him pitch in Rochester, NY and he was dominant.
he new Nolan. Strasberg Express. boy got the stinking cheese. and the yo-yo curve. evil ass slider. he blew me away. he will be a force to be reckoned with.
Isn’t coming out of the minors and having your first game against the Pirates almost like still playing in the minors?
True lol… but Pirates are playing some decent ball this year…. not the usual pushovers
LMAO
He’s the real deal. A bonafide phenom is definitely true, hopefully he’ll be around and dominate for the next 10 years.
It will be exciting to see him in the post season in a few years when he’s polished and unaffordable to the Nationals. He’ll be on a big market team by then, Yankees, Red Sox, Mets…
Agreed he’ll probably end up a Yankee. Another thing to think about is that these big arm pitchers tend to burn out quick IE: Dontrelle Willis and Carl Pavono
Real deal…maybe. I would wait until he has a few more starts under his belt. I don’t know if he wouldve looked so good against the Yankees tho. Plus, everyone is sucking this dude off…great white hope…what about Chapman from Cuba? Chapman throws 100mph with ease. The reds farm can’t develop him.