The young pitcher may need Tommy John surgery.

Too much too soon.

Washington is cursed much like the Mets...Matz went down two months after inking deal with the Mets now Strassburg is replaced in the rotation by Zimmerman who conincidentally had TJ last Aug...kind of a right of passage with all the pansy rules around pitch counts.LOL.

KInd of interesting the LL WS shows kids of 12 throwing curveballs masked by announcers as off speed and breaking balls..At least he has millions..and a baseball card with his face on it.

I was very young, but can remember when Dwight Gooden was the premier pitcher in the game. 276 K's his rookie season in 1984, and Cy Young in 1985 had people talking Hall of Fame. Doc made even the best hitters in the game look like a fool. The drugs killed his career, and he was never the same after '86.

Sandy Koufax was drafted out of high school in Brooklyn by the Dodgers for a $50K bonus. The rules then were for anybody getting that kind of money had to make the major league roster so that wealthy teams couldn't sign "bonus babies" and bury them in the minors for a few years.

Sandy could throw 100MPH and had a curve that went 88MPH and was dropping like a rock after it went 6 to 8 inches on the horizontal. He never pitched a single inning of Minor League baseball.

Koufax was done at the age of 32 and is a Hall of Famer with but 168 victories. He was the Nolan Ryan of my childhood - couldn't find the strike zone but could throw like nobody else as a very young pitcher.