It kind of makes sense now. He has had arm and shoulder issues for three years. Even pitching as well as he did, he had bouts of dead arm.
Good interview by Grant Paulsen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0jf760UrIyjhDUApX0C51p?si=2v9UFCVjTKqucXYn_vE77A&utm_source=copy-link
this is also the thing about Strasburg. You go back through his injury history (google up Barry Svrluga's article, which I've linked to before) and in hindsight you can figure Strasburg was dealing with the nerve problem for probably 5+ years before he was re-signed. Lot's of shoulder and neck issues, including several stints where they say it was for nerve inflammation or impingement. I think what happened in 2019 is they thought they had gotten it to a manageable state so they thought they were safe re-signing him.
