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BASEBALL: Who is the best recent pitcher???
God, this is a tough one.
We got Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, all in the same era?
How lucky are we?
While other pitchers have been giving up meatballs that fly out over left field at record speeds, these guys dominate.
Yeah, Roger and Maddux are a little off, but they are amazing.
My personal opinion. Pedro Martinez has been the most amazing pitcher to watch. The guy only has one twenty win season, on a pretty good but never great team, and he always seems to get injured slightly. However, his ERA is unholy, he pitches in a total hitters park, and he'd have an era around 1 if he'd pitched in SF or a decent pitching park.
That said, I guess I'm going Maddux. He won the damned cy young every year Randy didn't, has the best strikeout to walk ratio ever, walks half as many dudes as nolan ryan per year, and doesn't give up the long ball.
But Pedro could end up the most dominant since Koufax.
Another rant. I love the strikeout, but an out is an out. Common people. For all those K's nolan got, he is 23rd all time in Home Runs allowed.
The stats *I* really like to look at.
ERA
Opposing AVG
Walks + Hits / 9
Innings Pitched / G
Cheese
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