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john/z28jdDoes being a closer for 5 1st place teams get you noticed? or having better ERA vs lg average than Sutter? What about the much higher K/IP? Heres the most misleading thing everyone brings up,is how much more work the older relievers did,specifically Sutter
Sutter got 1.5 outs per appearance
Wetteland got 1.2 per
Is that really a huge difference? Obviously not because that equals just under 1 out extra per game,and 1 out is the smallest measure of innings pitched.
I can compare them on numbers because i took the time to look at their stats like WHIP rating and ERA compared to league and then figuring out the difference between their exact peers.I can also see Sutter wasnt anything special for the last 1/3rd of a short career(from 83-88 he had one real good year and 4 sub-average) while Wetteland was consistantly good and retired at 33 when he still couldve played 5 years if he wanted to.Sutter was done when he retired. And finally,and for the 3rd time in this thread, i compared them ONLY because you said Wetteland deserved 0 votes and 400 for Sutter was okay.
Also a poll on yahoo sports right now has 70% of the voters saying Goosage was a better choice than Sutter,but in the previous poll Gossage lost out to Rice by a wide margain.So what does that say for the voters? They mislead themselves,and remembered the good Sutter and probably couldnt tell you much else about him except what was on that cheat sheet they had.Its obviously been done before though because somehow Sutter won the Cy Young closing for a 5th place team,when Kent Tekulve put up similar numbers for the eventual World Champs.Im guessing its because Joe Neikro lost votes to his teammate JR Richards,and his brother who he led the league in wins with at 21? I dont get it