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Originally Posted by Vintageclout
The other issue you continue to dodge is the logging of late innings which 80s and later pitchers seldom had to do. To average only 6.77 innings per start (Maddux) tells a HUGE story that consistenly runs ramped among post 80s starters. They DIDN'T have to pace themselves! There's a big difference going out there in the first inning knowing you can lay it on the line for 7 innings as opposed to saving something for the 8th and the 9th innings. It shortened the game for great pitchers like Maddux (just one example of course) who could utilize their 100% stuff until they were gassed at 90-100 pitches. No WAR or JAWS charts could ever measure that concept. Bottom line is there are so many caviats and intangibles statistics can never measure. I've been watching baseball since 1970 and Seaver is the best pitcher, COMBINED peak value and long career, I've ever seen (discounting Clemens since he obviously cheated after leaving Boston). Interestingly enough, the best peak value pitcher was Pedro Martinez until Clayton Kershaw came along and Clayton just may wind up as the greatest pitcher ever before he is done. His statistics are absurd; off the chart supernatural numbers for Ks/walks ratio, WHIP & ERA. Peace!
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yeah but dead ball era pitchers had huge parks, a ball that was spit on, brown, misshapen at times, faced a lower quality hitter , didn't throw at full strength most of the time and didn't have the slider, splitter or cutter to put more pressure on their elbow and shoulder. and all sorts of other things too.
The thing is, you can't blame pitchers for their era. The deadball guys got the era they got, as did the guys in the 80's, as did everybody else. The modern era is one of specialization, such is the way of things, but punishing people and ignoring evidence because of some sort of "yeah but " thing is intellectually dishonest. Remember, the numbers are park and league adjusted.
07-22-2016, 07:24 PM
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