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Posted By: Bill Riles
Date: Wednesday, 1 October 2008, at 10:02 p.m.

In Response To: More on Baseball (Stick)

Great pitching staff beats great team every time.

Off the top of my head I'm taking Koufax (the '61 or '62 stats through '66 are truly mind-boggling), Gibson, Ryan, Carlton, and Seaver. Might not be fair to the earlier stars but the predate me a bit.

Some of Ryan's stats are mind-boggling as well. Always played for crap teams and still put up some incredible stats (same is true of Carlton). Ryan has 7 no-hitters and, as I recall, 19 complete game one-hitters. Nobody else is even close. He won the ERA one year with Houston with an 8-16 record due primarily to poor support. Carlton won 27 in '72 when the Phillies won like 50 total.

As an aside, another stat many overlook: Tiger Woods now has 13 majors, I think, and is chasing Nicklaus' 18 majors. However, again as I recall, Nicklaus finished second in a major like 21 times. Not even close.

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