Nate Eovaldi's pitching for peanuts (coming off TJ surgery) but, seriously, if the Nats were playing in the NLCS right now, wouldn't you be as comfortable with Nate out there as with Strasburg? Hell, I'll just go ahead and say it, I'd prefer Eovaldi to Stras (who is making 7x as much).
Not just to pick on Strasburg, there are MANY elite (based on what they are earning) pitchers out there -- David Price would be another one -- who really are no better than any number of lower-paid hurlers, much lower-paid!!.
There's a lesson here somewhere.