Pettitte vs. Halladay vs. Ryan

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

It's circumstantial, sure, but there's no one in all of baseball (including even Barry Bonds) whose career is more suspicious just on the basis of his statistics. There are plenty of ways of presenting it, but I think this is my favorite.

Nolan Ryan led the league in strikeouts many times, as follows.
Ages 25-32: 7 times
Ages 33-39: 0 times
Ages 40-43: 4 times

He also ranks 308th in career K/BB ratio, but that's a separate issue. Halladay is 24th. Pettite is 166th.

Ages 33-39 were all with the Astros. They limited his pitch-count significantly after signing him (far fewer complete games as a result) and you can see that he made a monumental effort in reducing the number of walks issued during that time. This also impacted his K numbers. His K/BB was actually better over that period.

To insinuate that PEDs were involved late in his career is just flat out wrong.

[h2oya311]

It's easy to focus on one stat. Have you looked at the other important statistic that goes into calculation of WHIP...you know, the one that starts with "H". If I'm reading correctly, Nolan Ryan is #1 ALL-TIME in lowest Hits per 9 innings, ahead of everyone's favorite modern player, Clayton Kershaw!

End of argument!

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

End of argument!

I wish you the best of luck with that proclamation.