I note that a number of people have said Pedro Martinez is rated too high as is peak was not very long. Ditto for Trout, although his peak will likely grow considerably. So the total value for Pedro is quite less than say Tom Seaver or Walter Johnson. Still an argument can easily be made that Martinez is the best pitcher ever based on his talent and what he did 96-05. I draw the correlation to the Beatles. It is almost universally agreed that they were the greatest Pop/Rock band of all time by music fans. Few will say that the Stones or the Who or someone else should be considered the greatest of all-time as they were together for a much longer period of time.
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