O/T Best Starting pitcher of all time.

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

So in a game you need to win you'd start 1996 Roger Pavlik over 1987 Nolan Ryan? Wins are nice, but they do not even begin to tell the story of how effective a pitcher is.

If Roger Pavlik will give me a win and Ryan won't then I'll take Pavlik all day long.

Originally Posted by Robextend

+1

Wins should just be a part of the equation; to ignore the other components isn't logical.

So you'd rather your favortie team has the league's lowest ERA than win the World Series? To think that anything but winning games is important isn't logical. Giving up only one run may be impressive, but when it comes down to it all that matters is winning the game.

Rotisserie baseball has ruined how people look at stats. If you play for a team which doesn't score many runs, your ERA is going to be lower than if you played for a team which scores a lot of runs. This is true in most cases.