[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by Snowman

I don't have the time to write the algorithm necessary to calculate it right now. But I've done A LOT (well in excess of 1,000 hours worth of coding) on similar baseball problems to estimate the value of pitchers and hitters for the purposes of "gambling" on baseball over the past 10 years. We'd have to agree on a definition of "better" first. Then I'd need to control for the parks they pitched in, the changes in mound heights, the expansion and contraction of the strike zones they were subject to, the defensive capabilities of their teammates, the speed of the hitters they faced, and the hitting talent they faced. I don't have the time for that, so I say I don't know who was better between Koufax, Randy, and Kershaw.

But I'll leave you with this. I'd take Hyun Jin Ryu over Warren Spahn any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Do you have time to respond to my discussion on the WS statistics for Koufax and Grove? You keep mentioning Spahn, but the majority on this thread find Grove superior.