Both have excellent potential to be #1 starters. At this point, Strasburg is probably more polished and would be most ready to step into a big league rotation right now. However, Chapman has blown away lots of teammates/opponents/scouts in Spring Training including OF Jonny Gomes who called him "borderline Randy Johnson." Still, because is a Cuban defector, Chapman has fewer scouting reports and remains the bigger unkown out of the two, but his ceiling is just as high.
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