Of course Foster benefited from having Rose Morgan Bench and Perez hitting in front of him...
Nobody should make it on the basis of five years. Koufax may be the exception because his were SO off the charts that most people count him among the 10 best pitchers ever. Mattingly had five great years but how many people would rank him with Ruth Cobb etc.?
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