Can we replace Gold Gloves?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIn the wake of the latest round of atrocities, Friend of the Blog Rany Jazayerli shows up with a welcome and constructive idea: This annual trashi...
Blog | November 12, 2009Kneejerk Reactions: Game 1
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...were Hall of Famers Carl Hubbell (twice), Warren Spahn (twice), Sandy Koufax, Don Sutton, John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, and Curt Schilling. For more ... Check out It's About the Money (Stupid!) and, for instant...
Blog | October 28, 2009Yankees bench Hall of Famer
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotCarrying on a grand tradition -- remember Greg Maddux and Javy Lopez? -- the Yankees are going to bench one of their best players because one...
Blog | October 06, 2009As great as Greinke is ...
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...2.00 ERA and at least 200 innings. Dwight Gooden (1.53) leads the way, while Greg Maddux and Roger Clemens both did it twice. As did Martinez, whose name was the first that...
Blog | September 23, 2009Give Jeter the Irving Thalberg
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...is without question one of the three most dominant pitchers of his generation (Pedro Martinez and Greg Maddux -both of whom rightly received their awards), and each and every team in the league would...
Blog | September 04, 2009Wainwright making Cy case?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotOK, class: Raise your hand if you tagged Adam Wainwright as a Cy Young candidate before this season. Wainwright...
Blog | August 26, 2009Greinke's Cy Young hopes fade
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...adjusting for context). Of those seven, five will someday be elected to the Hall of Fame: Greg Maddux (165 ERA+), Roger Clemens (157), Randy Johnson (135), Mike Mussina (130) and Tom Glavine (128). The...
Blog | July 30, 2009Buehrle reminds us (again) that he's good
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotWell, Mark Buehrle has thrown two more no-hitters than Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, and Tom Glavine. Combined. Does that mean Buehrle's a Hall of Famer someday, too...
Blog | July 23, 2009Monday Mendozas
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Sanchez, and Clay Buchholz all have thrown no-hitters; neither Tom Glavine nor Roger Clemens nor Greg Maddux ever did. • This is just funny. • So is this. And this. (H/T: BTF...
Blog | July 13, 2009Marquis winning ground war
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...s gem: Marquis In case you missed it, Jason Marquis was Bob Gibson, Orel Hershiser, and Greg Maddux all rolled into one last night. In other words, he was pretty special. A kind of...
Blog | July 01, 2009On deck: Weaver vs. Weaver
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...faced off for the first time in 1924, and would meet three more times; • Greg and Mike Maddux met twice, first in 1986 when both were rookies, and then again two years later...
Blog | June 19, 2009Pettitte chasing 300?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...his Age 37 season. Jamie Moyer has won 119 games since his Age 37 season. Also, Greg Maddux won 66 games and David Wells won 78 games after their Age 37 seasons. OK, so...
Blog | June 08, 2009Halladay's magical powers
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...such a profound impact on the Blue Jays' young pitchers. Halladay is a lot like Greg Maddux in that way. Maddux is revered as one of the masterminds of pitching -- deservedly so -- and...
Blog | May 14, 2009Is Joe Saunders this good?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...s career mark is .286. CC Sabathia's is .297, Roy Halladay's .298, Greg Maddux's .289. The only real exception to the rule seems to be knuckleballers, the best...
Blog | May 12, 2009The last of the 300-game winners?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Johnson? Given that they said that Tom Glavine would be the last one before him and Greg Maddux would be the last one before him and Roger Clemens would be the last one before...
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