2013 Baseball season!!!

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

In the mid-70s to early 80s, Martin was notorious for abusing his pitchers' arms. Most teams were not pushing their pitchers to pitch complete games as they were in the previous era by this time. It's thought that Catfish Hunter's career ended prematurely due to how hard Martin ran him on the mound. And, while pitchers still did pitch complete games, from time to time, it was no where near as often as Martin had his pitchers do it. His first couple of years in Oakland showcase this, and by his 3rd/ last year there he had pitchers with toasted arms and they sucked.

Looking at the CG numbers...1980 was insane for the A's. Martin's teams were always among the leaders in CG, but 1980 was abusive.

[dagwave]

 Yeah...but There are a lot of 50 and 60 year old former pitchers who can't raise their pitching arm to comb their hair.

 

now that's just lazy. NAME them.

Interesting that there seems to be a (minor) statistical movement towards throwing the pitch count concept out the window......maybe it's all about breaking balls too soon, but there are always plenty of 'em tossed in the LLWS.....

 

and what about non - injured HS pitchers signing up for voluntary Tommy John surgery to gain a few ticks on the radar gun???

 

ok, i'm officially ranting

Dave Dravecky and Jim Abbott are not polite, considerate replies.

[calvino]

Happy for Maddux and Thomas - both deserving of their first year nods into the Hall.

[Guest Jules]

But not Glavine?

[calvino]

But not Glavine?

 

 

I guess so - he's alright (actually didn't realize he was up for the first time, too)

 

Thomas had a pretty nice press conference a bit ago.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

In my mind, the Hall of Fame Voting officially ends the baseball year.And since it's 34 days until Pitchers and Catchers report...thread closed