Scott Mitchell: Nate Pearson's top-of-rotation future hasn't changed, but workload will be story in - TSN.ca

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Pearson's top-of-rotation future hasn't changed, but workload will be story in 2021. ScottyMitchTSN has more:

is going to be one of the main stories all season long.

The flexor strain that shelved the hard throwing righty for five weeks last summer and limited him to just 20 total innings, including a scintillating six-out postseason performance, was simply a reminder that a pitcher who has never surpassed 101.2 innings in a single season still needs to be handled carefully.

That one was widely debated and nine years later the Nats may have divvied up those innings more creatively in order to use their prized pitching possession when it mattered most.debate from 2016 can’t be forgotten, and this same front office regime let the then-24-year-old get to 192 innings in the regular season, a 100-frame jump from the 92.1 he threw in 2015.He has a screw in his elbow from a high school stress fracture and then dealt with the flexor strain last year.

Pearson says there’s no set-in-stone plan that he’s heard of during the first week of spring training, with his first appearance scheduled for Monday’s game at TD Ballpark in Dunedin where he’s expected to follow starter“We haven’t really dove into an actual gameplan,” Pearson said. “I know in 2019 I started out doing the five-two-five-two thing, but they haven’t said anything about that and I don’t think that’s going to be the case.

“They’re all going to be just about the same, honestly,” Montoyo said of his starters. “Again, it was a weird season last year, not that many games. We’re going to work with and then look at the numbers and see what they tell us and then ask questions. That’s going to be how we’re going to do it. We’re going to monitor everybody and the good thing about the technology is it’s going to let us know a lot of stuff, but also asking the guy how he feels. That goes for almost everybody this year.

The velocity had returned when Pearson was deemed healthy enough to be activated Sept. 24, but he pitched out of the bullpen in short stints upon his return, once again making it hard to judge.“I felt like early last year I was trying to point corners too much rather than just fill up the zone with strikes,” Pearson said.

 

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