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According to Yahoo!’s Tim Brown, a "source close to Stephen Strasburg<\/a>(notes)<\/a>"<\/span> has indicated that the 21-year-old will likely make his major league debut on June 8<\/a> against the Pirates. <\/p>\n If accurate, this means that Strasburg will be in line to face the following opponents prior to the All-Star break: Pittsburgh, Cleveland, ChiSox, Baltimore, Atlanta, San Diego and San Francisco. <\/p>\n So, um … wow. It’s tough to imagine a sequence of weaker lineups. Those teams currently rank 29th, 26th, 22nd, 27th, 15th, 23rd and 24th in the majors in runs-scored. The Nationals have set up Strasburg for the smoothest possible transition from Triple-A, where he’s been utterly dominant (3-0, 0.39 ERA, 0.56 WHIP, 27 Ks in 23.1 IP). <\/p>\n Brown’s tweet confirms an earlier filing from MLB.com’s Bill Ladson<\/a>, suggesting that Strasburg will, in fact, make his first regular season appearance in the Pittsburgh series. The phenom’s future teammates are understandably excited:<\/p>\n Nationals players were ecstatic to hear the news about the \nCenter fielder Nyjer Morgan<\/a>(notes)<\/a>,<\/span> who nicknamed Strasburg "Jesus" after \n"This kid is a monster. He is a special breed," Morgan said. "I’m fired No word on whether Morgan has also nicknamed Jesus Flores<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> "Steve," but let’s hope he has.<\/p>\n Pitching call-ups are always risky, but it’s tough to imagine Strasburg scuffling, given the Nats’ unusually friendly schedule<\/a>. We’ll remind you again to clear your calendar for his debut. There will be a live-blog, and possibly a raffle. (Sorry, no Superfractors<\/a>).<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Photo via AP Images <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Yahoo!’s Tim Brown, a "source close to Stephen Strasburg(notes)" has indicated that the 21-year-old will likely make his major league debut on June 8 against the Pirates. If accurate, this means that Strasburg will be in line to face the following opponents prior to the All-Star break: Pittsburgh, Cleveland, ChiSox, Baltimore, Atlanta, San […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\npossibility of Strasburg making his Major League debut against
\nPittsburgh.<\/p>\n
\nwatching him pitch during Spring Training, said Strasburg will make an
\nimpact on the team.<\/p>\n
\nup that he will face my former team. I just want to see him pitch really
\n good against them. He is going to bring an energy that we haven’t had
\nbefore here. It’s something I’m looking forward to."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n