Re: Baseball HOF Results
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How Sutter got elected above Gossage is beyond me. Look at their stats. Now ask yourself: "I am up one run with two innings to go. Who, in their prime, do I want out there?" I know my answer.
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I know my answer, too. Sutter. Yes, Goose could bring it at 100 MPH. Big league hitters can time straight fastballs, no matter how hard, if they see them enough. Sutter's split-fingered pitch, when it was on, was completely unhittable, kind of like Mariano Rivera's cutter today. Chris Russo, and a few other commentators (and I would agree from what I remember of him in his prime), basically said that once Sutter got 2 strikes on a batter, that was it. The at-bat was over. He was completely automatic. The guy won a Cy Young pitching for the Cubs in Wrigley Field, for Chrissakes. Plus, he was more of a 2-inning type of pitcher than Goose was, since he had other good pitches besides the splitter.
--Scott
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