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I'll also point out these factoids:
1) Feller was 266-162 in wins over his career, 104 over .500. By
comparison, Tom Seaver was at 106 (and some of you love to gush
over Seaver).
2) Although Feller would have topped 300 wins for a career with war years
converted into baseball years, his 266 was still outstanding.
3) No less an authority than Ted Williams himself, called Feller the best
pitcher he ever faced. Since Williams was an actual warrior instead of a
keyboard one, I think I'll trust his evaluation.
4) No-hitters most certainly are a fine metric for determining a pitcher's
quality, when placed in context- which I (and others) have done. Feller
threw his 3(!) over an 11 year time span, which of course is a much
longer time than many pitchers are able to sustain in the first place.
Short version is any team would gladly have taken Feller in their rotation-
any team. That's a great pitcher (and no, I'm not a Cleveland fan or a
Feller collector). Trent King
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