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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