(09-09-2019 12:18 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(09-09-2019 12:11 PM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(09-09-2019 11:34 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(09-09-2019 08:20 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(09-08-2019 09:32 AM)stever20 Wrote:  There is not a huge difference between Scherzer and Strasburg. Scherzer is not THAT much better than Strasburg.... PERIOD.

Despite Scherzer throwing 30 fewer innings, his fWAR is 6.2 to Strasburg's 5.2. Last year it was 7.4 to 2.4.

Strasburg is still a pretty damn good pitcher. Dodgers wouldn't be doing cartwheels having to see him twice.

Strasburg is great. Scherzer is the best pitcher in baseball and has been for the past 5 years.

And Strasburg has been a top 10 pitcher as well in the past 5 years- despite only having 765 innings in the 5 years. There are 8 pitchers who have fWAR over 20 in the last 5 years- and Strasburg is one of them...

Yes, Strasburg is a great pitcher and it's obvious that initially high expectations ended up distorting perceptions of him. But Scherzer is an obvious first ballot hall of famer. I'd rather face him once and Strasburg twice, than the other way around.