Baseball Playoffs

Cannon Shell · #1 10-06-2010, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Halladay is the best pitcher of my lifetime. It's a shame he hasn't been on a contender until this season. He might as well have been pitching on Mars all these years. What a monster.

He is a great pitcher. But he isnt the best pitcher of your lifetime yet.

Clemens and Maddux had far better careers and higher peaks. Pedro had a 7 year run better than anyone in baseball history has ever had. Randy Johnson won 5 Cy Young awards and finished 2nd 3 times. Tom Glavine won 2 Cy Youngs and finished in the top 3 6 times.

Halladay's last few seasons have been very good. If he pitches as well over the next 3 or 4 years he will join the above group. Being that he is going to get a steady dose of the Nationals, Marlins and Mets in the NL East it looks good for him.

dalakhani · #2 10-07-2010, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

He is a great pitcher. But he isnt the best pitcher of your lifetime yet.

Clemens and Maddux had far better careers and higher peaks. Pedro had a 7 year run better than anyone in baseball history has ever had. Randy Johnson won 5 Cy Young awards and finished 2nd 3 times. Tom Glavine won 2 Cy Youngs and finished in the top 3 6 times.

Halladay's last few seasons have been very good. If he pitches as well over the next 3 or 4 years he will join the above group. Being that he is going to get a steady dose of the Nationals, Marlins and Mets in the NL East it looks good for him.

Best pitching performance Ive ever seen is when pedro went into yankee stadium in september of 99 and pitched a one hitter and the only hit was a home run. No walks, 17k's and faced one over the minimum.

You could take all the perfect games and no hitters and nothing was like that night.

Did anyone else see that game?

Cannon Shell · #3 10-07-2010, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dalakhani

Best pitching performance Ive ever seen is when pedro went into yankee stadium in september of 99 and pitched a one hitter and the only hit was a home run. No walks, 17k's and faced one over the minimum.

You could take all the perfect games and no hitters and nothing was like that night.

Did anyone else see that game?

I do remember that game. Incredible performance.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...99909100.shtml
The Jack Morris game in the WS is one I will never forget.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...99110270.shtml

dalakhani · #4 10-07-2010, 12:24 AM

Okay, baseball calls:

NY over Minnesota
TB over Texas

Atl over Sf
Cin over Philly

Cin over Atl

TB over NY

TB over Cin

I bet Fox is drooling over the prospect of those ratings.

Crown@club · #5 10-07-2010, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by dalakhani

Best pitching performance Ive ever seen is when pedro went into yankee stadium in september of 99 and pitched a one hitter and the only hit was a home run. No walks, 17k's and faced one over the minimum.

You could take all the perfect games and no hitters and nothing was like that night.

Did anyone else see that game?

My favorite Pedro pitching performance was on April 13, 1994 against Cincinnati. He was pitching a perfect game before he hit Reggie Sanders in the 8th inning. Then Reggie charged the mound, and had the balls to appeal his suspension since Pedro was pitching tight to him the entire game.

horseofcourse · #6 10-08-2010, 10:30 AM

Lincecum was arguably better than Halladay yesterday. Giant leap of logic, but 31 swings and misses. The most in the regular season in any game by a pitcher was 26. The postseason pitching has been ridiculous.

randallscott35 · #7 10-08-2010, 10:42 AM

My 2 first round picks not looking so good at this point. We'll see. Some major pitching performances this post season. As we get years away from the steroid era it is amazing how much pitching has improved.

Bigsmc · #8 10-08-2010, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

As we get years away from the steroid era it is amazing how much pitching has improved.

I love it. I would much rather watch a well pitched, fast paced, 1-0 game than a 9-8 slugfest with 6 pitching changes dragging it out to nearly 4 hours.

Even with the lengthened commercial time between innings, the Halladay game took 2:34 and the Lincecum game took 2:26.

randallscott35 · #9 10-08-2010, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Bigsmc

I love it. I would much rather watch a well pitched, fast paced, 1-0 game than a 9-8 slugfest with 6 pitching changes dragging it out to nearly 4 hours.

Even with the lengthened commercial time between innings, the Halladay game took 2:34 and the Lincecum game took 2:26.

I prefer it as well.

RockHardTen1985 · #10 10-08-2010, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

My 2 first round picks not looking so good at this point. We'll see. Some major pitching performances this post season. As we get years away from the steroid era it is amazing how much pitching has improved.

Im not sure its def the era. These 5-7 really good pitchers, have been really good the past 3-4 years. They just all came together this post seasson.

randallscott35 · #11 10-08-2010, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

Im not sure its def the era. These 5-7 really good pitchers, have been really good the past 3-4 years. They just all came together this post seasson.

The steroid era was generally mid 90's into mid 2000's based on the available runs, home runs, pitching stats. Thus in the further we get out of it, the better the pitching should come back. (not to mention humidors for CO as well)