Dwight Gooden
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I thought this was going to be an RIP thread...glad it's not.
He was a great player but he could have been even better.
He was a great player but he could have been even better.
Dwight Gooden's single season WAR his second year ranks 24th all time. But if you filter out the likes of people such as Pud Galvin and Old Hoss Rayburn (or anybody else who isn't over 125 years old, it's #1. Steve Carlton is second. It's basically a fact Gooden had the greatest season ever in modern baseball for a pitcher.
True story...I almost got to play against Gooden in high school.
Thanks to drugs all the money and good baseball cards I traded for Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry rookie cards was for nothing.
Hey, at least those '86 Donruss Cansecos held their value. I'm planning on selling mine for a tank of gas soon.
Don't forget Roger Clemons and Mark McGwire and you might be able to gas up your lawn mower too.
Fo real?!!! That’s awesome. 98 mph fastball with a nasty hook. Todays radar gun would say 100 for the 84 Gooden
Would think Ron Guidry's '77 or '78 season would be up there also.
Saw a documentary on him.
Talking head said it wasn't so much the drugs that affected his game.
He used to have a Pedro Martinez body.
Tall and wiry and he could really whip his arm.
As he matured, he just got a little a thicker like all of us and his mechanics changed.
He was doing drugs forever. But you can see numbers drop when he got to 27, 28.
Talking head said it wasn't so much the drugs that affected his game.
He used to have a Pedro Martinez body.
Tall and wiry and he could really whip his arm.
As he matured, he just got a little a thicker like all of us and his mechanics changed.
He was doing drugs forever. But you can see numbers drop when he got to 27, 28.
12.2 WAR for Gooden vs. a 9.6 WAR on pitching alone.
Gooden also had a 1.1 WAR on batting because he also hit .226 / .265 / .280
Hard to beat Pedro’s 2000 season, imho. Dead center of the steroid era, in a tiny ballpark, and he was unhittable.
He was 6-5 at home that year, largely due to no run support. His home era was 1.84
12-1 on the road w/ a 1.66
In 10 of his 29 starts, Boston scored 2 runs or less.
Pedro and Maddux (95) are the two best, imo.
The book written about Gooden and Strawberry was a great read. In my basement but too lazy to go downstairs. Coke got the best of them and derailed their careers. That was a wild time to be a Met.
In regard to baseballl cards, I still have over 400 Strawberry cards and kept all my Gooden cards as well. Not worth a damn but worked hard on my collection. Prob still have over 10k in total. All worthless I’m sure since I collected mid 80s to early 90s
In regard to baseballl cards, I still have over 400 Strawberry cards and kept all my Gooden cards as well. Not worth a damn but worked hard on my collection. Prob still have over 10k in total. All worthless I’m sure since I collected mid 80s to early 90s
I grew up in New York, and the Mets teams of the mid 80's became THE team in NY sports. They were like rock stars. (and partied like rock stars as well) Lenny Dykstra was another guy who fell on hard times.
86 Mets are my all time favs of the mlb. Strawberry, keith Hernandez, Gooden, Gary Carter, Lenny Dykstra, Ray knight and Kevin mitchell. Yo!