If Strasburg pitches like current Scherzer for the next four years, I won't care about the answer one bit. That would be awesome. For the career comparison, it's a tough call: Strasburg was immediately a very good pitcher upon arrival in MLB, but peak Scherzer is better than Strasburg.
In fairness, peak Scherzer has a lot of baseball people calling him the best in the game and that's with Clayton Kershaw and Chris Sale still pitching brilliantly in their primes. Strasburg's ceiling as a prospect was "best pitcher in the game" so he hasn't hit that ceiling but he is definitely closer to that ceiling than he is to the floor and I think it's pretty unfair to not be happy with how he has turned out. I feel good when I look at the lineup and see Strasburg in the 9 hole because I know he gives us a great chance to win every game he pitches. Guys like that don't grow on trees.
