OT: Best Big Three pitchers on one club
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I kind of went by number of years pitching together & W-L records as I recall them.
Don't think Gentry fits the bill.
Almost included them, but though I really liked Podres didn't think he quite had the numbers.
Not too many years ago, the Mets had a “what could have been” great starting staff.
If you are going by one season, there's about 5 LA Dodger seasons in the past 10 years you could use. 2022 was ridiculous with Anderson, Urias, Gonselin, and Walker.
Indians won well over 100 games in 1954 to take AL title. Also had Bob Feller and Hal Newhouser and a couple of good relievers - Mossi and Narleski
Yes they did, 111 to be exact. Glad to see someone besides me remembers all those Indian chuckers.
Gentry had a lot of potential but doesn’t fit a big 3. I believe he was something like 13-12 in 1969.
First year I collected baseball cards. Was a Giants fan so WS win over the Tribe was special
I'm biased.
The NY Giants were my favorite team until they moved, then like the Bums they left with have been on my permanent s#!t list.
(disclosure : older brother was a Dodger fan and that's probably why I became a Giant fan)
So my top 3 are from the 1954 Giants
Johnny Antonelli, Ruben Gomez and Sal "the Barber" Maglie
Lincecum, Cain, Bumgarner are an oddity as far as big threes go because they pitched together for multiple seasons and won a few rings, but they weren’t all great at the same time.
Zito, Hudson, Mulder had a few nice seasons together, but didn’t win anything.
Ryan was on that team but not a top pitcher yet. Seaver, koosman, Ryan would have been a big 3 if he hadn’t been traded. They won combined 850+ games.
Was going to post about that great Giant staff. In addition to Antonelli, Gomez & the great Sal "the Barber" Maglie they had Larry Jansen & "Jumbo" Jim Hearn--not to mention the unhittable knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm out of the pen.
In the late 50's I played against Al Corwin who came up with the Giants during the '51 season & went 6-0 earning their rookie of the year honors. He pitched for the Kingston Braves in the very heavy NY NJ league. Today would probably be equivalent to a Triple a league--full of former minor & some big leaguers at a time when the minors went from D ball to Triple A & there were only 8 teams in each of the American & National leagues. So tough to make it all the way up. Tons of guys spent years in the minors finally gave it up while still in their 20's & early 30's & continued to play semi-pro ball. NY NJ league was the best of several that I played in.
PS-lived in Brooklyn in the 40's & 50's. Huge Dodger fan.
Spahn and Sain and 2 days of rain.
Probably doesn't make the list but these guys had the following ERAs for the 1973 Mets.
- Seaver 2.08 ERA - 290 innings pitched!
- Stone 2.80 ERA - 148 innings
- Koosman 2.94 ERA - 263 innings
- Matlack 3.20 ERA - 242 innings
- Parker 3.35 - 97 innings
- Sadecki 3.39 - 116 inning
That is some consistent starting pitching. They only had an 82-80 record owing to an inept offense but this staff got them to within one win of a World Championship.
- Seaver 2.08 ERA - 290 innings pitched!
- Stone 2.80 ERA - 148 innings
- Koosman 2.94 ERA - 263 innings
- Matlack 3.20 ERA - 242 innings
- Parker 3.35 - 97 innings
- Sadecki 3.39 - 116 inning
That is some consistent starting pitching. They only had an 82-80 record owing to an inept offense but this staff got them to within one win of a World Championship.
1986 Gooden, Darling and Fernandez were pretty good.. 2nd tier though in OP context. (oops, just saw someone got them into thread earlier today)
Hard to compare eras.. ERAs were much better back in the day... at least in the National League.
Hard to compare eras.. ERAs were much better back in the day... at least in the National League.
What about 1973 Oakland As.. Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter and Ken Holztman (Blue Moon Odom too).
Isringhausen
Pulshiper
Wilson
Ok now an all time almost WTF
Roger Clemens drafted 81 wanted 10,000 bonus mets offered 5,000
Mike Scott traded in 82
Gooden drafted in 82
Gooden
Clemens
Scott 2 rings ?? 3 ??
Pulshiper
Wilson
Ok now an all time almost WTF
Roger Clemens drafted 81 wanted 10,000 bonus mets offered 5,000
Mike Scott traded in 82
Gooden drafted in 82
Gooden
Clemens
Scott 2 rings ?? 3 ??
66 Dodgers had three HoFers
Koufax
Drysdale
Sutton
Zapp has mentioned a few times on this board how tough Sutton was
Koufax
Drysdale
Sutton
Zapp has mentioned a few times on this board how tough Sutton was
Unfortunately this trio didn’t deliver like I thought they would. I for sure thought we were headed for at least a couple more World Series wins with them.