Which Pitcher in Their Prime Would You Take To Win One Game?

[boss415]

pretty wild people mentioning dave stewart (career 4.00 ERA pitcher) and dennis eckersley (dominant closer, barely .500 starter) but nothing on Roger Clemens ... ??

silly


for 2-3 year guys Fernando and Gooden were as good as it gets but never sustained like Orel or Pedro or Maddux in same era

Silly ? Stewart beat the rocket 9 times. He had 4 20 win seasons in a row. Show me a pitcher that does that now. Yeah silly huh

 

[pathologist]

1985 Dwight Gooden, before all the coke

 

[KingEleven]

1985 Dwight Gooden, before all the coke

Good one

 

[StevieRay]

Gaylord Perry. Lol

kershaw for reg game not bad
Catfish Hunter
macginnity

Randy Johnson just mowed Em down
the braves line up of Smoltz , Maddox and Glavine prob never be another 123 punch
not sure of dizzy dean numbers?
Seaver

 

[HuskerFan1]

anyone who mentions the braves isnt reading the question right. i love maddux was my favorite pitcher of all time even over pedro but if its game7 of the WS and i can hand the ball to guy it would be pedro martinez. i am only 38 so i am going with guys i have seen pitch not old timers before my time

 

[Haystacks]

Pedro my fave ever but if you needed to win one game and your life depended on it , I'd give the ball to Jack Morris.

 

[HighVoltage]

Lots of great pitchers, but I am going back to 1930-31. Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia Athletics was a combined 59-9, and raised the A's past the Bronx Bombers of Ruth and Gehrig. And like you said, no wrong answers here. :toast:

 

[thekeyman]

I figured you would say Andrew Mccutchen

no he sucks,....241 ba,....68 k's

 

[Greenbacks]

 

[KingEleven]

thought for sure some sucker would list Nolan Ryan

 

[TomGshotput]

We were told for 1-game and for guys in this era... I chose Eckersly just for his fast sidearm pitching and his release. Which would be more than enough to win 1 game vs players today, who have never seen anything like that.

Players today get hits off Brad Ziegler, Darren O'Day, Steve Cishek, Pat Neshek and any of the others who throw sidearm and submarine. And there's a reason all of them only pitch one inning at a time. . .

 

[TomGshotput]

Lots of great pitchers, but I am going back to 1930-31. Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia Athletics was a combined 59-9, and raised the A's past the Bronx Bombers of Ruth and Gehrig. And like you said, no wrong answers here.

And that was when the entire league had a batting average of .296 and scored over 11 runs per game. It was like every single game was in Denver and he still had a 2.30 ERA and made 29 relief appearances those years in addition to starting as often as Kershaw or Arrieta

 

[cy1981]

Gibson or Koufax. Jack Morris isn't in Gibson or Koufax's category as all time greats but his performance in game 7 of the 91 World Series is as good and clutch of a performance as there has ever been. 10 inning shutout in game 7 is as good as it gets.

 

[CHOPTALK]

The best pitcher of all time
satchel paige

 

[DrunkenHorseplayer]

Randy Johnson; put him in the 70's and early 80's and he'd have been illegal.

 

[Willie99]

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sortable.j...465964333691&split=&playerType=ALL&timeframe=

two of the best seasons

Walter Johnson 36-7 36 GS 346 IP 243 K 1.14 ERA 0.78 WHIP

Bob Gibson 22-9 34 GS 304 IP 268 K 1.12 ERA 0.85 WHIP


The Big Train's Career

417-279
3508 K
2.17 ERA
1.06 WHIP

instead of the CY Young Award, it should be called the Walter Johnson Award

 

[Willie99]

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sortable.j...465964333691&split=&playerType=ALL&timeframe=

on this list of all-time great seasons, only Bob Gibson (4) in 1968 and Kershaw (37) in 2016 make the top 50 list after 1919

 

[fightgood]

I never saw him pitch but some of the old timers always say Juan Marichal was one of the toughest guys to face as a batter. Career 2303 strikeouts and pitched a 15 inning game against warren Spahn. That's right, the guy started and went 15 innings and gave up 0 runs.

 

[busterhyman]

cy young

 

[EveryGamblersDream]

Andy Pettitte