Greatest fluke seasons

[pclpads]

Originally Posted by travrosty

i dont think an entire season can be a fluke, give me the biggest fluke decade for any player. flukes are one day, one week maybe, something like that, a hot streak for a little while, not an entire season. you dont hit 191 rbi's in a season and its a fluke.

Johnny Vander Meer - journeyman pitcher, not close to being a HOFer, 119-121 record. But, back-to-back no-hitters in '38. Vander Meer! Not Hubbel. Not Grove. Not Gomez. Not Feller. And, hasn't been done since!

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by pclpads

Johnny Vander Meer - journeyman pitcher, not close to being a HOFer, 119-121 record. But, back-to-back no-hitters in '38. Vander Meer! Not Hubbel. Not Grove. Not Gomez. Not Feller. And, hasn't been done since!

Can't imagine that one ever being repeated

[Bored5000]

I have to go with Steve Carlton's 27-win season for a Phillies team that went 59-97 in 1972. Obviously, Carlton was a Hall of Fame pitcher entering the prime of his career. But it still seems really "flukey" that the team averaged more than seven tenths of a run higher in Carlton's 41 starts that season than in the other 115 games Carlton did not pitch.

The increased emphasis on SABRmetrics in recent years means that pitching wins aren't quite the be all and end all that they may have been in the past, but any modern pitcher winning 46 percent of his team's games in a given season is pretty flukey, IMO.

Carlton's win percentage that year was .730; the win percentage for the rest of the staff that year was .279.

[mrvster]

LOL!....I wish I had his moola....Id have a Wagner

[flavius]

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[boneheadandrube]

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