He has had at least 5 seasons of 28 or more starts. Not bad. I'm not mad the Nats have handled him with kid gloves.
And I'm fine with him peaecing out on this season early. I wish they shut Scherzer down the first sign of struggles.
Funny you chose 28 and not 30. And only two of those seasons have been in the last 6 seasons.
If you hold that 33 starts is a full season of starts in a 162 game season (162 ÷ 5 (every fifth game) = 32.4, so Stras gets the remainder) and that a full season of starts this season was 12, then Strasburg has missed 22% of his expected starts after his shutdown season.
The truth is that if Strasburg were in any other team, we would be laughing at the team that gave 7 years, 245 million to a pitcher that missed over 20% of his starts, was 32 years old, and has never been in contention for a Cy Young. We would be laughing hysterically and slapping ourselves on the back about how great our GM is for not being so desperate.
Sorry, you don't pay for aces to miss 20+ percent of their starts over their contracts, and you don't pay pitchers that do ace-type contracts