Don Sutton

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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

His rookie season the rotation was Koufax, Drysdale, Sutton, and Claude Osteen. Be pretty hard to pass that up!

They actually had a 2.68 ERA. All five guys on the Astros had a lower ERA than the second-best on the Dodgers, with the top guy on the Astros having the lowest ERA of them all.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I appreciate the difference in ERA but if you had me choose which rotation I would want, not in the bubble of just a one year period, it's not very close!

Also Joe Moeller was a spot starter with 8 starts. His total ERA was 2.85. I'm too lazy to see if i was better as a starter or a reliever, but there's a chance he could lower it a coupe of ticks.

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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

I appreciate the difference in ERA but if you had me choose which rotation I would want, not in the bubble of just a one year period, it's not very close!

Shame on you for taking Don Drysdale over Bob Knepper or Vern Ruhle

I'd take the '66 Dodgers every time as well.

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Years ago, Bill James put Sutton's numbers up against Lefty's. I thought to myself, this is blasphemy, but when you compare the two guys, there isn't much of a difference.
James point was that if a player doesn't have an earth shattering season, we tend to overlook his accomplishments.
By the way James also used this to compare Bob Johnson, Indian Bob, with Hack Wilson and he came up with the same results.
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