Projecting Wheeler closer to 5.7 strikeouts. He made four spring training starts and fanned 13 batters over 14 innings. More importantly, he threw just 30, 50, 75, and 71 pitches in those starts. He’s not the type of pitcher who needs a ton of spring work to get stretched out but I’m thinking it’s more likely we see a 90-pitch outing as opposed to a 100-pitch outing. Nationals were a below-average offense last season and they didn’t do anything in the offseason to drastically change that, but they were one of the harder teams to strikeout against RHP. They had just a 20.6% K%, which made them the 8th hardest team to strikeout.