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Posted By: jay behrens

Steve, you've never heard me talk about Koufax. I am not a big fan of Koufax and find him to be very overrated. There is no argument that if you are looking at peak performance, Koufax is one of the greatest, but he was a marginal pitcher until Chavez Ravine opened and then wasn't able to sustain his career. Should have been. Could have been. We will never know.

The thing that bothers most about Koufax being in the HOF is that Jim Rice was the most feared and dominant hitter in baseball for 5 years, yet he is dismissed as a HOF candidate, yet people act like Koufax is some sort of god. I know in the late 70s early 80s, there was no batter a pitcher feared more than Rice. And this includes Schmidt, Brett and other great hitters of the day. As a matter of fact, no batter has struck as much fear in the heart of pitchers until Bonds came along.

Jay