GREG MADDUX RETIRES
355 career wins and a career 3.12 ERA get Greg Maddux into the Hall of Fame as a first ballot. Oh yeah, his WHIP secured the first ballot. Ignore his wins and ERA because they don't matter as much as the stat of WHIP. Maddux was an under appreciated superstar pitcher. A pitching nerd in his own right, he won 4 straight Cy Youngs from 1992-95 for the Cubs and the Braves. He will no doubt go into Cooperstown wearing a Braves hat and will be the first "Atlanta" Brave to do so. Remember Hank played most of his career in Milwaukee. The Mad Dog was also in one of the best Nike commercials ever...
Chicks did the long ball. Stat nerds dig the WHIP.
2 comments:
haha... touché
probably the best pitcher of our era. you think moose deserves to be in the hall?
I don't know about Mussina. He played his whole career in a really tough division and during the steroid era but I never thought of him as in the same class as the Maddux's, Smoltz, Pedro's, Randy Johnson's, Roger Clemen's of his generation. Along with Tom Glavine I think all of them are first ballot Hall of Famer's. Moose never won a Cy Young and he never made an All-Star team after he left Baltimore(although he was a 4 timer in 10 seasons in Charm City) and he never got that 20 win season till this past season. If does get in I hope he would go in as a Bird since he was great as an Oriole but if he gets in and picks the Yankees hat well then he can go fuck himself.
In other words,
Orioles hat=Yes
Yankees hat=No
How is that for a bias opinion?
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