Dan Minette wrote:
> My idea of a comparison is that, if you could compose all time teams to
> compete in some alternate dimension ball park, and you were picking
> pitchers, who would you pick? I'd pick Martinez.
> Dan M.
>
Zim answered your post much as I would have, but I was
poking around looking at some stats - remembering one of the
best pitchers from my childhood, Bob Gibson of the
Cardinals. Check out:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/all_time_stats/players/g/41828/postpitching.html
He was in three world series, pitched 8 _complete_ games,
one of them 10 innings and had a record of 7-2. He had a
post season ERA 1.87 (1.00 in 1967). To top it off, he hit
two home runs over those three series (a record for
pitchers), and set the World Series 1 game strikeout record
(17, I think it still stands). He lost the first and last
of the nine games he pitched, loosing the last one when Curt
Flood misplayed a fly-ball in game 7 of the '68 series
against the Tigers.
I guess he wouldn't fit to well into a study that says there
aren't any clutch performers.
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