Knowing less about baseball than perhaps Y.E. Yang, I need to tread carefully and briefly in comenting upon it, but it seems to me to be a great thing that beyond the eleventh hour last night the Nationals signed the first overall pick from baseball’s June draft, Stephen Strasburg. Such is the present state of Nats’ pitching: when Capitals’ head coach Bruce Boudreau walks to the mound at Nationals’ Stadium to throw out the first pitch this Thursday evening, there will be Nats’ scouts in the stands who feel compelled to sign him.

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