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jay behrensfrom 1964-1970 (I'm a strict decade follower. You start with 1 and end with zero) McDowell was 103-80, 8 saves, 1829 SOs (avg 261/season), his ERA was 20% or better than the league every year and his WHIP was 1.20 or lower every year except 1967 for WHIP and ERA.
There is a real dearth of great pitchers in AL from 1961-70. The greats that did pitch in that time frame either played just the beginning or the end of the decade. Jim Kaat started in 1959, but he was far from the best in the 60s. There just weren't any great pitchers in AL that started their careers in the late 1950s and played in the AL for most of the decade. All of those types of pitchers (Gibson, Marichal, etc) were in the NL.
Jay
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