Will the Yankees rotation rank among the best in baseball history? The going won't be easy. To be among the best, you need to be good and deep; three All-Star-caliber starters having All-Star -caliber seasons is the minimum requirement. And a solid if not great No. A healthy dollop of good luck few injuries, stars align helps a whole lot, too.
The focus here is on single-season performance, not reputation or future honors. And to make things a tad more interesting, I've decided to not list an entire slate of s Braves, s Mets, s Orioles, s Dodgers or s Indians rotations that were great year after year. The ChiSox finished only a game behind the Yankees and a game ahead of the Orioles in a tight pennant race, despite a weak offense.
Peters was the only strikeout pitcher in the bunch his were fourth in the AL , but this was a control staff that was very stingy with the walks and hits. The five starters had a combined 3. Add in the 12 starts of closer Wilcy Moore, who went with a 2.
Hoyt and Pennock were future if marginal Hall of Famers. The Yankees ran away with the AL pennant with wins and then swept the Pirates in four games in the World Series, surrendering only eight runs. It's hard to find season-by-season stats, but between and , the Monarchs won six pennants and boasted perhaps the greatest pitching combo in pro baseball history with Hall of Famers Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith. Smith compiled marks of , , and between and , and many of his contemporaries considered Smith to be as good as, or better than, Paige.
Chet Brewer, part of the Monarchs' rotation during some of this period, is also considered one of the best pitchers in Negro League history. When your team piles up wins, it's inevitable that the starters are going to pile up impressive W-L records.
Lemon was first and Wynn third in complete games, and Garcia tied for the AL lead with five shutouts. Their combined ERA was 2. This was an old staff, with an average age of 32, but who wouldn't take an older staff with three future Hall of Famers Wynn, Lemon and Feller?
The starters got hammered when the Giants swept them in the World Series, but with the Indians' hitters mustering only nine runs, even their best efforts might have been doomed. When I think of the Giants, two players and two things come immediately to mind. Willie Mays and Dusty Rhodes are the players.
The Catch and The Sweep are the things. It wasn't until I dug into the numbers that I realized how great this pitching staff was: Antonelli, Gomez and Maglie finished in ERA, and Liddle and Hearn combined to make a solid fourth starter.
Add in an extraordinary World Series performance, and you've got one of the best. Which makes an awesome year for starting rotations. Won-lost records can be deceiving, eh?
Take away Koufax, and you've got a. But you've also got a rotation with a 2. Eddie Cicotte. Wilbur Wood. Detroit Tigers. Justin Verlander. Hal Newhouser. Mickey Lolich. Tommy Bridges. Jack Morris. New York Yankees. Whitey Ford. Andy Pettitte. Ron Guidry. Lefty Gomez. Red Ruffing. New York Mets. Tom Seaver. Dwight Gooden. Jacob deGrom. Jerry Koosman. Sid Fernandez. Seattle Mariners. Randy Johnson. Jamie Moyer. Mark Langston. Jim Palmer. Mike Mussina. Urban Shocker. Louis Browns.
Dave McNally. Jack Powell. Louis Cardinals. Bob Gibson. Dizzy Dean. Harry Brecheen. Adam Wainwright. Jesse Haines. Nolan Ryan. Chuck Finley. Just to go ahead and be clear - it's going to sound like a broken record when mentioning many Atlanta Braves' teams. But, that's because when you have a core of Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz, you're always going to have a dominant rotation. Glavine went with a 2. Millwood went with a 3.
Marquis struggled during the year, going with a 5. Still, the top four put up good numbers to warrant the Braves rotation for inclusion. Anybody would've loved to have been Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane in the early s.
Hudson went with a 2. Mulder went with a 3. Lidle and Harang combined to go with strikeouts. Although the last two weren't that impressive, Hudson, Zito and Mulder were lights out, helping Oakland get to the playoffs.
Spahn went with a 2. Buhl went with a 3. Sad thing for the Braves this year was they were beat out by the Brooklyn Dodgers by one game, thus ending their season instead of going to the World Series.
Mays was with a 2. Jones went with a 2. A few years later, Ruth went to hitting full time, picking up occasional mound victories during the rest of his career, to close at The Philadelphia Athletics had five double-digit winners int their rotation with none having less than a. Lefty Grove pictured went with a 3. The other starters included Jack Quinn, who went with a 3.
With six young starters, the Los Angeles Dodgers definitely had a team that could contend for a title. The team was led by Don Drysdale, who went with a 2. Podres went with a 3. Koufax was No. With three game winners, the New York Giants had a definite advantage on the mound. Christy Mathewson led the way, going with a 2.
Rube Marguard went with a 2. Al Demaree rounded out the group, going with a 2. Read Also. This to Sportsbook of the month. Get your Free Bet now! Latest News. Betting Tips. Current Bonus:. Top Betting Sites.
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