Are You Ready?

Photo Of The Chosen One Courtesy of Federal Baseball

The Nationals have set a date to unveil their most prized possession: Stephen Strasburg.

Strasburg is scheduled to make his Spring Training debut on March 9th when the Detroit Tigers visit Space Coast Stadium to take on the Nationals.

The Nats only expect him to go two innings (pretty standard for a pitcher’s first Spring Training outing) and throw about 40 pitches. This is just an opportunity to get Strasburg into a game to face some big league hitters for the first time.

Ordinarily, this sort of thing is not supposed to be that big of a deal, but the Nationals have staked their entire future on the shoulders of Strasburg.

Here’s hoping he performs well and here’s also hoping that we don’t take this too seriously…I mean, it’s not like he’s a savior or anything….