As always, we are fortunate to have you on the board, Bill. I saw the ESPN headline, but did not waste my time reading it. Your take on Buehrle is much more accurate.
Being 'an old lefty' myself, I have a natural appreciation of all things 'wrong-handed' and thus have long been a fan of pitchers like Buehrle.
But he doesn't belong in the conversation with Glavine and the other HOF lefties. I would place him a peg below Moyer and more like the later-career version of Frank Tanana...an entertaining pitcher for sure, but a .500 pitcher after all is said and done.
Still, I enjoyed watching his perfect game and his miraculous defensive play a few years ago that gave the world 'The Buehrle Meter' is still firmly affixed to my memory when many more important things have migrated elsewhere.
Let's put him in the Hall of Good Memories instead.
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