And you can’t base decisions solely on what happens afterwards.
Hindsight may be 20-20...but it’s not really a fair way to judge decisions.
Reckless decisions don’t guarantee good results either. Your side always forgets that other variables factored in in 2012, too. Pitching Strasburg does not automatically mean the…

He pitched basically without major incident in 2013 and 2014. Are you willing to say that shutting him down in 2012 may have contributed to that?
The problem with folks on your side of this “debate” is your entire narrative is driven by confirmation bias. Shutting him down was followed by 2 seasons of mostly injury…

Can you prove it hasn’t?
The only honest answer to that question is “no”.

No worries. It was part of the plan. I was sickly curious about how many people would think this was a great comment.

What does not letting Strasburg pitch in 2012 have to do with Desmond shitting he bed, Werth and Zimmerman being injured and struggling, Rendon being hurt, Scherzer falling apart of late in 2015...

Post hoc ergo propter hoc arguments don’t make someone “more right”. It makes them a peddler of a bullshit, created…

I chose my burner name for a reason. I’m a Nats fan, who fully supported the decision to shut it down.
I was just curious how many people would star this dumb sentiment.

Winning the World Series is such a crapshoot, it makes more sense to buy as many lottery tickets as possible (aka be good for many years) than it does to go all in on one ticket.

I agree. That’s why I chose the burner name that I did in order to make this comment.

They had a down 2013. And they had the best record in the NL in 2014 (2 games back from the best record in baseball).
You hold this opinion, because you want it to be true. (Probably because you were one of the loud folks being internet-tough saying he should have pitched. And you’re still trying to “prove” to everyone…

This is just like Strasburg! How did that work out for the Nats?