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Old 07-09-2005, 04:25 PM
FeelGoodAboutHood FeelGoodAboutHood is offline
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Default Nolan Ryan

While I think that Winning Percentage can be misleading over a season, over 25 years, a great pitcher is going to win more than 52% of his decisions. If you are going to sit here and tell me that a great pitcher is someone who goes out there and is slightly better than a coinflip to win that game, then good for you.

Kevin Appier also pitched on some god awful teams, yet his winning percentage is .552 and his career era is .75 better than the league avg over that span. Both of those numbers are better than Ryan's, but no one's talking about Kevin Appier as one of the all-time greats. Why? Because he isn't. But neither is Nolan Ryan.
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