139: 537: 73: 148.276: 19: 0: 42: 104: 293: 23: 144: 1.316.546.862: 5.0 Perry has a case as the best pitcher of the first half of the 1970's, although I think I'd select Tom Seaver. He went on to have an exceptionally long career for someone who started with such a low strikeout rate, pitching another 13 seasons in the majors, as his strikeout rate gradually improved, peaking at 5.5. Despite his unbelievable talent on the mound, he was also known as the best hitting pitcher. Jason played organized baseball in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Other Links > Baseball > Baseball Player Rankings by Position > Top Ranked Relief Pitchers . Career stats.358/.434/.577, OPS -- 1.010, Hits -- 2,930, HRs -- 301, RBIs -- 1,584. Pitcher Hitting 9 th – 3.7079. I used Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index to search for pitchers since 1960 who meet these criteria: There are 183 of them. The Florida native won back-to-back Cy Young Awards in 2018 and 2019 and was also named Rookie of the Year back in 2014. This squad would win back-to-back World Series titles — the most recent NL team to do so — starting with this 1975 lineup. 40 pitchers. He is also making history through time. When the New York Mets entered the World Series, they owned one of the best pitchers in baseball, Tom Seaver. Guidryâs prowess grew in his most important outings; he was 4-0 in the postseason from 1977-78, and was the winning pitcher in the Yankeesâ legendary tie-breaker victory (i.e., the Bucky Dent Game) against the Red Sox at Boston. Another Brewers pitcher in the super-low strikeout club was: Mike Caldwell: Caldwell reached the majors in 1971 but had only one decent season (14-5, 2.95 ERA for the 1974 Giants with a 3.9 K/9) before coming out of nowhere to finish as runner-up for the Cy Young Award in 1978. The Best Pitchers of the 1970s. Single-Season All-Decade Teams. Maddux was the best pitcher in baseball from 1992 to 1995, winning four straight NL Cy Young Awards. He is now only four home runs short of Jonny Bench’s 1970 record for most homers by a catcher in a single season. Strikeouts are at an historic level in the major leagues. Unfortuntely, none of those six hits left the park. In an especially invigorating time for baseballânot always for the best reasonsâthe game witnessed a second wind of sorts from an impressive collection of innings eaters who mixed quantity with quality. Batting - Pitching. The franchise has a long history of dangerous hitting pitchers, from Don Newcombe and Don Drysdale in the 1950s and 1960s to Fernando Valenzuela and Rick Rhoden in the 1970s … An immediate encore was not in the cards as Blue held out for a better salary (selling toilets in the meantime) before returning to record a lowly 6-10 mark in 1972. Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second). Len Barker led the AL with 6.83 K/9 in 1980; 56 pitchers topped that mark in the major leagues in 2013, or 69% of those who qualified for the ERA title. Found inside – Page 228IP 4.1 BB 1 so H 4 W - L 0-0 SV 4 COMPLETE OFFENSIVE THREAT : Roy probably had the best batting eye on the Yanks during the 1970s . He had great speed and was a daring and smart base runner . He could deliver the type of hit that any ... Who is the only pitcher to lead both the NL and AL in shutouts – in the same season? Pitcher: Nolan Ryan: Houston Astros and Texas Rangers. Rivera was a total monster in the playoffs, though, and was a huge reason why the New York Yankees won … Minnesota Twins 1960s Starting Rotation. This to me was the Golden Decade for Major League Baseball. Reggie Jackson caps a stormy first year in New York with a storybook flourish for the Yankees at the World Series. But as a super-low-strikeout pitcher? Rick Honeycutt: Technically Honeycutt had just one super-low strikeout season, 1981, but he deserves special mention for 1983. Baseball author Bill James wrote that Brett was the best hitting pitcher of the 1970s. He is one of the best-hitting pitchers ever; he went 15-for-34 (.441) as a rookie in 1937. ( Log Out / The search is on for unauthorized foreign substances that pitchers can use to doctor baseballs, long against the rules but rarely enforced until now. It wasn’t that long ago (at least in the mind of this 55-year-old) that these numbers not only weren’t “average,” they were off the charts. Vida Blue, 1971. If there are two outs and runners in scoring position when the pitcher walks up to the plate, it is quite common for a strike out or a ground out – ending all potential at a big inning. Pingback: Adjusted K%: Ranking Single Season Strikeouts (Part 1) | Cut On And Missed, Did Splittorff throw a split-finger fastball? K/9: 3.10 Gibson was one of the most prominent pitchers in the 1960s and 1970s. Best Year: 1980 (2.34 ERA, 24 wins, 9 losses, .727 win percentage, 13 complete games, 304 innings, 286 strikeouts) It was undoubtedly a tale of two decades for the aging Lefty, who leveraged his top standing from the 1970s into the new decade before disintegrating as he reached his 40s. In 1945, he became the only player to lead both leagues in home runs at his position in the same season. He won 19 again the next year, but his K/9 jumped to 4.7. And some of these pitchers had excellent seasons…they just didn’t have very many of them. When he had his best record, going 18-8 for the 1982 Angels, his K/9 was 3.2. 1970-71, St. Louis Cardinals; 1972-79, Philadelphia Phillies. Best Year: 1972 (1.97 ERA, 27 wins, 10 losses, 30 complete games, 346.1 innings, 310 strikeouts, .207 batting average against). He didn’t allow a single stolen base against him all season. June 13, 2013. Not only was he the best shortstop in the 1970s, he collected 2,321 hits, drove in 950 runs and scored 993 times. For instance, Warren Spahn, perhaps the most underrated great pitcher of all time despite winning 363 games in the big leagues, wins the New York Daily News writer Dick Young, a virtual poison pen for Mets owner M. Donald Grant, repeatedly belittled Seaver in print to the point that the ace demanded a trade and got it, to Cincinnati in 1977; the deal infuriated Mets fans, and the team immediately went into a deep recession that would take years to recover from. In fact, his adjusted ERA in 1974 was 36% better than league average, still the best for any super-low-strikeout pitcher since Sandy Consuegra in 1954. After years of constant losing, the colorful Charles Finley finally has a winner with the A’s in Oakland. Six mediocre teams stumble and bumble with one another in a memorable National League East race. Shackled for nearly a century, major leaguers are freed with the death of the reserve clause. Runs. Dave Rozema: Rozema made the Tigers in 1977 as a 20-year-old and had an impressive rookie season, going 15-7 with a 3.09 ERA and leading the AL in fewest walks allowed per nine innings. It is a comprehensive team roster and player names are sorted by the fielding position where the … The Top 10 Best Hitting Pitchers in MLB History. Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. Forget it. Found inside – Page 143Some of the best right - handed pitchers of all time played ball in the 1970s . ... The feat is even more amazing when viewed in light of the fact that he did not face puny - hitting pitchers , but designated hitters . Herbel’s best hitting campaign was a 3-for-28 showing (a .107 average) in 1967. (It should be said, though, most of his best seasons came with K/9 rates of 4.6 or higher). ( Log Out / Have we seen the last of starting pitchers who strike out fewer than three batters per nine innings? It’s not close between these two. After pitching more than 200 innings in each of his first two seasons, Rozema never threw as many as 150 innings in a season again, but he remained reasonably effective when he did pitch through 1985 and saw his K/9 rate gradually increase, peaking at 5.4. On Sept. 19, 2003, against Milwaukee pitcher Doug Davis, Johnson took him deep to left center for the only home run of his career. New York Mets: Five replacements for David Wright, Yankees: Giancarlo Stanton walks it off then disappears when dodging ice bath, NFL Announces List Of Players Placed With Franchise Tag, Next year's Chicago Cubs team could look a lot like this year's squad, Colorado Rockies injury news: The latest on Connor Joe, Yankees: Derek Jeter's quote on his legacy in baseball will fire up Yankee fans. It was a different time. It is clear that there are a lot of baseball fans who are quite excited about it, as it is the first to enter the current generation of consoles. He went 18-7 with a 3.18 ERA for the World Series champions (and pitched effectively in three postseason starts), then followed that up with a so-so year and several poor ones. The story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season. “Seldom does an era, and do sports personalities, come alive so vividly, and so unforgettably.” —The Boston Globe In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as ... 42 of 50 Tennessee - … 1970-71, Chicago White Sox; 1972-78, Los Angeles Dodgers; 1979, New York Yankees. Best Year: 1979 (2.96 ERA, 21 wins, 9 losses, 17 complete games, 276.1 innings, 45 grounded into double plays). In the American League that was partially explained by the arrival of the designated hitter, pulling weak-hitting pitchers out of the lineup. Richard won a career-best 20 games in 1976, the first of … Found inside – Page 1957Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017 David Kaiser ... Milwaukee Braves of 1956–1959 reputedly had a great pitching staff, but actually were a good (though not great) hitting team playing in a pitchers' park. Bucky Dent’s improbable 163rd-game heroics cap a feverish late-season comeback by the New York Yankees over the Boston Red Sox. 5. His three super-low-strikeout seasons included his best, when he was 19-13 with a 3.40 ERA in 1978, although that was helped by a career-low .247 BABIP that was 33 points below the league average. The fact of the matter is that there were not really a ton of pitchers who dominated the '80s. Forty times during the 1970s, pitchers threw over 300 inningsâitâs only happened once in the 40 years sinceâyet in most cases their durability remained remarkably intact. I believe that Dave McNally remains the only pitcher ever to hit a grand slam home run in a World Series (1970.) Zahn was 39 when the season ended and pitched just seven more games in the majors. Some big changes are expected to be made with this release, which definitely is a necessity as recent releases are far too similar. Have a comment, question or request? Did Forever linked to the groundbreaking procedure that saved his pitching career, the left-handed John transformed from grade-B starter to ageless ace throughout the 1970s. John had three more super-low strikeout seasons (although only the first of them could be considered a good season) and pitched his final major league game just after his 46th birthday in 1989. Nitpickers searching for holes in a club projected to win over 100 games rejoice. In today’s game, only the National League pitchers get to swing the bat consistently. * You don’t bat in the minor leagues. It hits .236 — Kingman’s lifetime average. Even including the era when super-low strikeout pitchers were not uncommon, it’s been hard for a pitcher with low strikeout rates to maintain a successful career of any length. In 174-2/3 innings with the Rangers that year he had a 2.42 ERA with a K/9 of 2.89 (good control, a low home-run rate and a phenomenal 50 non-batter outs in just 25 starts helped considerably). The all-decade team: the ‘70s. But when he dipped into super-low-strikeout territory, his record suffered, losing 19 games in 1973 and 20 in 1974. His three super-low-strikeout seasons included his best, when he was 19-13 with a 3.40 ERA in 1978, although that was helped by a career-low .247 BABIP that was 33 points below the league average. It was almost four. Found inside – Page 4Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig combined for 107 home runs, and the team's batting average was .307. In the 1970s, the Cincinnati Reds were called the Big Red Machine because oftheir powerhouse offense. Still, hitting alone rarely wins ... Found inside – Page 1962The Dodgers' superior pitching again mostly prevailed in the 1970s, but there also was reason to rejoice in the decade with the best teamhitting since the Brooklyn era. The Dodgers deployed position players who could also hit, ... Jerry Augustine and Lary Sorensen: These late-’70s Brewers teammates had multiple super-low seasons. A three-time Cy Young Award winner (1973, 1975-76) and top five finalist four other times during the decade, Palmer recorded 186 of his eventual 268 career victories in the 1970s and won another five games (against two losses) in 13 postseason appearances, with four complete games and a 2.75 ERA. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Robin Roberts, 69.8 2. After the surgery he had two seasons with K rates of 5 or better before going to the Yankees, when he became a low-strikeout pitcher. Dontrelle Willis. Post-playing career. Kline’s K/9 rate was half what it had been as a rookie in 1970 and one-third less than what it was in 1971. He was a nine-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glover. He went 22-9 that year, 16-6 in 1979, and his K/9 rates were merely low those years. Beloved by Mets fans, Seaver was never afraid to speak his mindâand this got him into trouble after he criticized the team for not taking advantage of the new free agent frontier in the aftermath of the Andy Messersmith decision that doomed the reserve clause. He claimed he sometimes could not see the catcher's glove, and that the hitter's bat would change sizes. But Gibson was a … Fergie Jenkins was always a favorite too. Check out the five best bad team pitchers of all-time below. The group of 10 pitchers to follow likely also qualifies as the collection of the most colorful characters among all our tops-of-the-decade lists. An extreme ground-ball pitcher, he got 35 ground-ball double plays turned behind him. With the Reds, Seaver missed out on the Big Red Machineâs championship years but at least gave them the notable star ace they long lacked; he threw his lone career no-hitter at Cincinnati in 1978 and helped lead them to the NL West title in 1979. Yet still, Blue proved resilient with a pair of 20-win campaigns in the mid-1970s even if his fastball lost some of his juiceâafter striking out 301 batters in 1971, he never racked up more than 200 in any other season. Seaver, by far their best pitcher, exceeded expectations with a win-loss record of 19-10, a skinny earned run average of 2.08, and 251 strikeouts. So it’s tough enough as a low-strikeout pitcher. Visit Our Patreon Page to Create Your Own All-Time Fantasy Teams and See Other Bonus Material . Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt was the only one to do it twice, hitting 48 home runs in 1980 and 40 home runs in 1983. Like Seaver, Palmer was both an intelligent thrower and human beingâbut he showed more sex appeal, as the ladies frequently espied in the numerous underwear ads he posed for. He still managed to be reasonably effective, going 14-11 with an adjusted ERA just slightly worse than league average, but he won only nine major league games after that season and was out of baseball at age 33. Blue was a part of that group and probably the best, winning the Cy Young and MVP in Oakland in 1971 with a 1.82 ERA over 39 starts and 312 innings. The “Big Red Machine” was the best baseball team of the 1970s and, arguably, the best team in National League history. This led to uneven results throughout the decade; twice he led the NL in wins (1972 and 1977âboth years earning him the Cy Young Award), and twice led in losses. Steve Carlton, 1972, 2. Standing out from this period is his phenomenal 1978 season, which included a 13-0 start, was the highest win percentage ever by a 20-game winner, the most shutouts by a left-hander since Babe Ruth (in 1916), and an 18-K performance against California on June 17 at Yankee Stadium that gave birth to the now widely-used routine of fans exhorting a pitcher on when he had two strikes on a batter. Found inside – Page 176Baseball Stars of the 1970s and 1980s Talk About the Game They Loved Fay Vincent ... When I first came to the big leagues, where they had four 20game winners at Baltimore, pitchers threw batting practice. The BP that they had to throw, ... However, he had pitched enough innings in the AL to qualify for, and win, the ERA title for that portion of the season in which he had a super-low strikeout rate. Perryâs peak came in his 3.5-year tenure with the Indians, winning his first Cy Young Award in 1972âhe might have also won 30 games had the Tribe given him more than 2.9 runs per startâcompleted 29 of his starts in back-to-back years (1972-73), and ran up a 15-game win streak (one short of the AL record) in 1974. His decline from there was quick, as he put up a 5.35 ERA in 1979 and won only seven games after that. Shading is not used to differentiate the players' performances. Hint: I “initially” wasn’t going to include this one. The next year was hit best, hitting .264 with 25 home runs and 21 doubles. Niekro went on to win 221 games in his career, but in his best seasons his K/9 was always above 4. The incomparable Brooks Robinson cleans up at third base on the world’s biggest baseball stage for the Baltimore Orioles. Based on performance while a Phillie, there are three reasonable contenders by career WAR: 1. 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