No, but to say he hasn't hit the worst-case scenario doesn't mean Cooper didn't have a point. Strasburg is a starter who's made 30 starts three times in eleven years. In other words, he misses a month or so's worth of starts almost every season. And now he has a very long, very expensive contract, and isn't healthy.
Similar arm action as JZ, by the way, who turned into an injury-riddled pumpkin at 30, killed the Tigers for 5 years, and will likely never pitch in the majors again. Strasburg just turned 32.
on the other hand, Strasburg now has 50% more career fWAR than Wood and more than twice that of Prior. Putting Prior aside because I think his injuries are tied to freak things like getting hit by balls and breaking things that disrupted his motion rather than normal wear and tear, Stras also has a half run better ERA than Wood (even bigger FIP difference, but you hate FIP). Wood also was only a starter for 5 seasons. Maybe the fairest thing to say about Strasburg v. Wood is that the Nats have been able to deal with Strasburg's injury pattern and keep him as a major piece of a rotation while Wood ended up pitching most of his years as a reliever after a brilliant start to his career. It's not quite like Dr. Jobe telling the Dodgers to trade Pedro for Delino DeShields because of his arm motion would lead to his shoulder going (it certainly did in 1999 in the playoffs, and he only won one more Cy Young after that and continued to pitch well until 2006 or so), but I'll take what we ended up getting out Strasburg. A guy you need to manage, but a nice problem to have.
