| Rk | Player | W | Age | G | CG | SHO | IP | H | BB | SO | HR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roy Halladay | 181 | 25-35 | 329 | 63 | 18 | 2351.0 | 2222 | 408 | 1831 | 3.07 | 186 |
| 2 | CC Sabathia | 174 | 21-31 | 350 | 35 | 12 | 2384.0 | 2212 | 674 | 2043 | 3.44 | 208 |
| 3 | Derek Lowe | 155 | 29-39 | 374 | 10 | 4 | 2174.0 | 2266 | 650 | 1344 | 4.08 | 178 |
| 4 | Mark Buehrle | 154 | 23-33 | 361 | 24 | 6 | 2406.1 | 2564 | 537 | 1358 | 3.86 | 271 |
| 5 | Roy Oswalt | 149 | 24-34 | 328 | 17 | 7 | 2071.1 | 2024 | 487 | 1674 | 3.32 | 181 |
| 6 | Tim Hudson | 148 | 26-36 | 318 | 19 | 11 | 2108.2 | 1998 | 595 | 1319 | 3.37 | 158 |
| 7 | Johan Santana | 136 | 23-33 | 315 | 15 | 10 | 1896.0 | 1574 | 497 | 1896 | 3.02 | 203 |
Monday, December 9, 2013
BRING OUT YOUR KELTNERS: Roy Halladay, clearly the best pitcher of [insert arbitrary endpoints here], will today sign a one-day contract with the Toronto Blue Jays and announce his retirement from baseball. From 2002-2012, for instance:
A Cy Young in each league, eight All-Star appearances, a perfect game and a playoff no-hitter. Induct! (Basically, you're making the Koufax case here given the career length, but ... it's justified.)
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How much money do you get from a one-day contract? $20M annual for a day is $54K a day? Even if you take $1, does your agent want 20%?
ReplyDeleteThose weights are on the low side -- no way Sabbathia is only 174 pounds, and Santana as 136? He's skinny but not that skinny.
ReplyDeleteIn response to the short-career argument, per BB-Ref, Doc is 41st all time in career WAR for pitchers, and 42nd in JAWS (ahead of 32 current HOF SPs, including Koufax himself, and right behind Feller and Newhouser). I grant that easier cases can be made for Maddux, Johnson, Clemens, Martinez, Mussina, Schilling, and Glavine (and maybe Smoltz). But still, not that hard a case: Induct.
ReplyDeleteIn other baseball news, I'm intensely curious to hear from Isaac Spaceman on the Geoff Baker article from this weekend (http://seattletimes.com/html/mariners/2022420240_mariners08xml.html).
ReplyDelete274, more like. He's 6' 7" -- a guy who is 6' 7" and 174 is a stick.
ReplyDeleteCould someone explain the point of the one-day contract?
ReplyDeleteApparently so that he can retire as a Blue Jay: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/roy-halladay-signs-1-day-contract-to-retire-as-a-blue-jay-1.1581363
ReplyDeleteLargely if not entirely symbolic way to retire "as a member of" what is usually thought of as the most meaningful team in a player's career. Here, Roy was a free agent, having played out his multi-year contract with the Phillies, so he inked a deal with his original team just for the purpose of retiring as a Blue Jay. Gonna guess no money changed hands.
ReplyDeleteApparently former 49er Roger Craig may have been the first (in US pro sports at least) to sign a one-day contract for the purpose of retiring: http://thebiglead.com/2013/08/09/roger-craig-was-responsible-for-the-first-one-day-retirement-contract-in-the-nfl/
ReplyDeleteTweet of the day on this comes from the Philadelphia Zoo: https://twitter.com/phillyzoo/status/410133393540919296
ReplyDeletethanks!
ReplyDeleteLet us not forget that he was robbed of the 2011 Cy, and merited real consideration for the 2002 Cy and perhaps an outright award. I'd have voted him 2010 MVP.
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