After the 2019 season it was who do the Nats sign, Strasburg or Rendon. Now it looks like they may have been better off to let them both walk.
No. Rendon's injury isnt career ending nor chronic. Rendon also played the vast majority of the 2020 season and put up similar numbers. Unless that changes, I still would have much preferred Rendon.
Strasburg had an injury that already had a clock on it (TJS) and had a history of getting dinged up and being unable to be a steady part of the rotation. Until his contract year, Strasburg hadnt made 30 or more starts since 2014, and only once had made it above 25 starts. Dude was ALWAYS hurt. He was so often unable to pitch due to injury that prior to 2019, he made three postseason starts. The Nationals played 19 postseason games from 2012-2017, and Strasburg was only able to pitch in three of them.
If any other team had signed Strasburg to such a ludicrous deal, we would have mocked them.