One of the arguments we've seen in support of shutting down Stephen Strasburg goes like this: "The Nationals wouldn't have done it without consulting Dr. Lewis Yocum. He performed the Tommy John Surgery, and he knows more about this stuff than you do!"
↵Just one problem with that rationale:
↵↵↵"I wasn’t asked," Dr. Lewis Yocum told the Los Angeles Times.
↵Yocum said he had not talked with Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo since last year and had not talked with Strasburg since spring training.
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