After a disastrous outing Wednesday at Milwaukee, Stephen Strasburg now has a 3.70 ERA and 1.28 WHIP, making him not quite the ace his NL-leading 10.6 strikeouts per nine innings would have you believe. But his comments after the game may shed some light on the disappointing numbers:

"I'm not right mechanically right now, and I think it's causing [hitters] to see the ball a lot better," he told The Washington Post. "Happens to everybody. I'm going to keep working hard, and it's going to turn."

So ... does that mean, like, tipping pitches? What is it you're saying, Stephen?

"Still trying to figure that out. Just doesn't feel the same. Doesn't look the same."

Whatever is going on with Strasburg, it's not just in his head. Pitching coach Steve McCatty can tell something is off as well.

"It"s hard to say," McCatty said. "Rushing a little bit, a little bit of collapsing on the back leg and a little lateral. Some of them looked like that. Something we'll work on."

OK, that sounds less like tipping pitches, but it's a problem nonetheless. I remember "collapsing the back leg" was something John Farrell helped Jon Lester correct in his return to the Red Sox last year.

My thinking is that if Strasburg is this good with a mechanical flaw -- and again, his strikeout rate speaks for itself -- just imagine how good he'll be when he and McCatty correct it. Now that they've detected it, it's only a matter of time.

You wouldn't want to sell him short in Fantasy.