I was working on a longer post regarding player height, but wow this thread got weird. Love everything about this thread and the debate, but come on. Koufax is a great pitcher. But in an all time great debate, you don’t get to just cut out Koufax’s terrible first 6 years of his professional career and pretend it didn’t happen. That’s just now how it works.
And on top of that, 600 innings is all that’s needed to be the GOAT? Even in modern baseball, say 150 innings per year, that’s only 4 years. So the HOF requires 10 years to even make the HOF as a low tier HOFer. But somehow you can be the greatest pitcher ever pitching 4 years? And not even qualify for the HOF? That is jumping the shark.
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