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Originally Posted by bravos4evr
sigh...... WAR is cumulative, it is not a score. so a borderline HOF'er who threw for 24 years like Perry will have a higher score than Mathewson , seriously go lookat the innings counts and it will show both who A- had the better peak and B- who had the slowest decline. it depends on the rater on which of those two they value.
and why the argument against Nolan Ryan? 9.55 K rate when avg was under 6, a career ERA of 3.19 and an FIP of 2.98 nearly 5400 innings pitched. that's pretty damn elite stuff.
look at this table showing most innings pitched and see how it impacts total WAR score
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.asp...ers=0&sort=8,d
and yes fangraphs is simply better. It uses park and league adjusted stats instead of treating a sub 2 ERA in the deadball era as equal to one in the steroid era. |
The other issue you continue to dodge is the logging of late innings which 80s and later pitchers seldom had to do. To average only 6.77 innings per start (Maddux) tells a HUGE story that consistenly runs ramped among post 80s starters. They DIDN'T have to pace themselves! There's a big difference going out there in the first inning knowing you can lay it on the line for 7 innings as opposed to saving something for the 8th and the 9th innings. It shortened the game for great pitchers like Maddux (just one example of course) who could utilize their 100% stuff until they were gassed at 90-100 pitches. No WAR or JAWS charts could ever measure that concept. Bottom line is there are so many caviats and intangibles statistics can never measure. I've been watching baseball since 1970 and Seaver is the best pitcher, COMBINED peak value and long career, I've ever seen (discounting Clemens since he obviously cheated after leaving Boston). Interestingly enough, the best peak value pitcher was Pedro Martinez until Clayton Kershaw came along and Clayton just may wind up as the greatest pitcher ever before he is done. His statistics are absurd; off the chart supernatural numbers for Ks/walks ratio, WHIP & ERA. Peace!