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Originally Posted by 100backstroke
Ryan was effective enough to notch well over 300 wins on poor/avg. teams. Put him on pennant winners and he could have come close to 400 wins. He has 51 MLB records (some of which will never be broken), earn 1st year ballot HOF with 98.8%. Yeah, his walks were the downfall which led to higher ERA, but when you pitch an astronomical amount of pitches kinda comes with the territory. Similar to blasting Cy Young for most losses, or hammering Pujols Ripken and Hank Aaron for tops on the list for most Double Plays hit into. Ryan was quite effective.
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Ryan was great at what he did, strikeouts and having dominant enough stuff to produce 7 no hitters. I will never argue he wasn't good or shouldn't be in the HOF, but some fans think he's a Top 5 or 10 pitcher of all time and, IMO he's not close to that. Thats why I think he's overrated.