And after an MRI revealed what manager Davey Martinez called “a minor strain of his left oblique,” Fedde was placed on the 10-day injured list this morning.
“It stinks,” Martinez said in his Zoom session with reporters prior to today’s series finale versus the Marlins.
That said, the Nationals will need someone to take Fedde’s spot for now in the rotation, which was due to come up Monday against the Mets in a game rescheduled after the Nats’ season-opening COVID-19 outbreak.
The 28-year-old right-hander, who pitched in two games for the Royals in 2017, was on the Nats’ active roster for a doubleheader earlier this month but never appeared in a game before being sent back down.
There was some positive news on the injured pitching front today, with Stephen Strasburg throwing off a mound for the first time since he went on the IL with a neck strain June 2.
* Juan Soto was the lone member of the Nationals lineup to advance to Phase 2 of voting for this year’s All-Star Game.