Comments on: Pedro Martinez 1999: Best Season Ever

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:27:16 +0000

Pedro’s season was surely one of the tops if not the best. A couple of others come to mind:

Steve Carlton pitcher 1972 Phillies – went 27-10 for a last place team, dominated NL stats, and won a higher percentage of his team’s sins than any other pitcher in history.

Stan Musial hitter 1948 Cardinals – led the NL in nine different batting categories. Missed the HR title by one homer, but led in hits, doubles, triples, BA, runs, RBI, total bases, etc. – BA was .376

By: SpinMax

SpinMax — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:50:53 +0000

Ty Cobb 1911
146games
.420 avg 14strikeouts
147 runs
127 rbi
83 sb
47 doubles
24 triples
8 hr

The guy struck out once every 10 games. That’s insane. I’ll take that anytime over 50 homers.

By: Alan Hull

Alan Hull — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:14:05 +0000

Great post, Larry. I totally agree that Pedro in 1999 was the best season of all time.

Lol on Charley Radbourn 1884. Dude was a beast. 59-12??

Babe Ruth, either 1919 or 1920 could be a close one in terms of context as he hit more homeruns than any other team in baseball in both of those seasons and went on to re-invent the game.

By: SpinMax

SpinMax — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:14:11 +0000

By the way, if you want someone more current…
Ron Guidry
25-3
278IP 248K
1.74era
16 complete games

Al Spalding
55 wins
5 losses
575IP
1.52era

By: SpinMax

SpinMax — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:48:14 +0000

You kids can’t see past things that happened in your lifetimes. The
all-time best pitching season is:
Charley Radbourn
678 innings
73 starts
73 complete games
59 wins
12 losses
11 shutouts
441 strikeouts
1.38ERA
oh yea, 1 save

Read it and weep, whippersnappers.

By: JEWCY

JEWCY — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:35:25 +0000

It was either Jeremy Bonderman or Mike Maroth for the Tigers. If I pitched for that team in 2003, i would of lost 35 games easy-and they would of left me out there for the experience

agree with pedro’s season though

By: tecmo

tecmo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:17:27 +0000

Doug Drabek, 1990.

Kidding, I would have to agree with Pedro in 99.