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jay behrensPSAJD, you claim that my pointing out that he won more games in the 80s invalid since it's jsut one thing. It's no more invalid your one point that his ERA was 3.90.
ERA is an interesting stat and nice indicator, but baseball is about WINNING games. ERA helps you win games, but it's not the sole reason for winning them. Every year we see pitchers with measly ERAs with losing records and others with ERAs out the roof that lose only a hanful of games.
Morris was a big game pitcher that always did well with everything on the line. This intangible should aslo be part of the HOF equation? People too hung up numbers. I love them, but I know there is more to a players career than purely numbers.
When have the luxury of almost 20 years of hindsight to see the greatness of Clemens, but in the mid to late 80s, if you needed to win a game, Morris would be at the top of list of pitchers you would want to start. Clemens was still young and basically unproven, unlike Morris who had already proven.
Jay
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