Why isn't Smokey Joe Wood considered the Greatest RH-er or even in the discussion????
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...woodjo02.shtml
His numbers are as good, if not better, as any for a shorter time frame then Mathewson, Johnson, Feller, Gibson, etc.
Why?
Longevity.
The only reason Koufax is in the conversation is because people have seen him, he's more recent, more video footage, otherwise he's in the same boat as Clarkson and Wood. The "if they only pitched longer, they could be considered the best ever" boat. But they didn't.