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					Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth  Maddux's success was the result of dumb luck!!  21 years of it, well, maybe 16 of which really defined him. | 
	
 Well, he pitched for 21 years which seems like a lot, but it was only 5,008 innings.  The sample is just too small.  Maddux was lucky.  Also a bum because only K pitchers who played after Spahn, except for Koufax who is exempted because I don’t know, are any good.