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Originally Posted by jchcollins
If the goal was to win, then yes, Perry was a better pitcher - as were many - than Nolan Ryan. I go down enough of these rabbit holes on Facebook, but the general theme is that there is nobody quite like Nolan Ryan if you are looking for "bad team" excuses as to why he didn't somehow win 400 games in 27 years or something like that. It's always been odd to me that you don't hear such excuses for pitchers like Sandy Koufax or Bob Gibson - who also played on notoriously low scoring teams - but lifted them to be successful anyway.
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I would never object to people saying Ryan was exciting, or their favorite, or they like him best, or he had a valuable career, or how his 27 seasons is incredible. It is plainly true that his value just isn't all that special. People can like whatever they like, and can be factually correct while describing his unique career.
But Ryan is about the top of the list when it comes to plainly false arguments made for players in discourse. We're now at the point where people are arguing Ryan is better
because he only gave up a few more runs than Perry. You can't make this stuff up lol.