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Gooden had a great stretch to start his career too. Koufax only won 20 three times.
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plus 54.5 WAR in only a little over 10 year career is pretty damned impressive stuff
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He ranks 56th in WAR7. Still impressed? And I see 49.0 WAR next to his name on Baseball Reference.
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53.2 bWAR for Koufax (one of us is looking at the wrong column) 30 wins above average (WAA) Don Sutton has 23 WAA (to pick someone with the opposite career arc) Drysdale at 28 or how about Nolan Ryan with 35 WAR isn't a straight measure of value. WAA isn't either. It's more important to a team to get production all at once than it is to get it spread out (because winning a pennant requires above average performance; in general someone who is inconsistently great will win you more pennants than someone who is consistently good). Koufax's WAR total is low for the hall of fame, but since he squeezed that WAR into so few seasons, I'm fairly comfortable saying that it produced as much value as Don Sutton's much higher 68. Koufax isn't the greatest pitcher in the hall, but he's not a terrible mistake either. |
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This is what I am looking at, maybe it's a mistake.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/jaws_P.shtml 117 Sandy Koufax HOF 49.0 46.1 47.5 I agree his dominant half decade was so overwhelming he should be in. I do think however in popular opinion he tends to be overrated due to the glamour factor. Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 06-16-2016 at 05:34 AM. |
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