Baseball Pitchers?

Question

Who are 5 greatest baseball pitchers of alltime!

Answer 1

I am going to try to be fair about this. I sincerely do not believe that all 5 best pitchers ever have pitched since World War II, let alone in the past 20 years as some of the other answers show.

These are based on wins, winning percentage, strikeouts vs walks, career length and consistency, and the concept of the "big game wins".

1. Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants.
2. Roger Clemens of Highest Bidding Team
3. Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals
4. Warren Spahn of the Boston/Milwaukee Braves
5. Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators

In that list we have one 400 game winner, three 300 game winners, and one big game pitcher that was 7-2 in World Series games.

Sandy Koufax and Pedro Martinez are two of the most dominant pitchers ever, but injuries stopped Koufax (he won 27 games his last season) and Martinez is too brittle.

Answer 2

Warren Spahn Cy Young Walter Johnson Roger Clemens Sandy Koufax

Answer 3

1. Roger Clemens
2. Tom Seaver
3. Warren Spahn
4. Greg Maddux
5. Heres an interesting one for you: Jim Palmer (more innings pitched than Gibson yet a lower ERA of 2.86) and pitched many of his years after the mound height change (he adapted well)

You'll notice I did not include dead ball era pitchers in this list such as Mathewson or Johnson. This is because these pitchers were not tested for two reasons. The first reason was that the pitchers were throwing a loosely wound, dirty and often misshapen ball for several innings strait. If you look at Walter Johnson's stats, the year the ball was changed his ERA jumped up by an average of almost 2 full points 1.5 to 3.5. Another reason I did not include them was because they never faced the FULL baseball talent pool (***** leagues).

Answer 4

In no particular order: Cy Young, Roger Clemens, Greg Madduxx, Bob Gibson and Lefty Grove. There are enough arguments to include those five, but I hate leaving Tom Seaver, Jim Palmer, Cristy Mathewson, Steve Carlton, Nolan Ryan and Warren Spahn behind.

Answer 5

Walter Johnson, Satchel Paige, Lefty Grove, Christy Mathewson, Cy Young.

Answer 6

1)Cy Young,anytime you win 511 games you got to be good.I believe,no I know thats one record that will never,ever be broken.
2)Bob Gibson, this is a homer call but he was very good.
3)Nolan Ryan,Can you imagine the games he would have won if he played for a good team
4)Tom Glavin,this guy doesn't throw 100 MPH
but he knows how to pitch.
5)Roger Clemens,this guy can still get it up there and hes over 40.
Now all my picks are of the pitchers I have personally seen pitch,except for Cy Young

Answer 7

Roger Clemens
Randy Johnson
Nolan Ryan
Steve Carlton
Whitey Ford

Answer 8

Roger Clemens, Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Christy Matthewson, and Walter Johnson. Koufax and Gibson changed the way the game was played... literally, they had to change rules for these guys! Johnson and Matthewson were just unfair they were so dominant. I respect Clemens for doing what he has done through a largley offense oriented era.

Answer 9

Juan Marichal
Rod Beck
Don Robinson
Robb Nen
Dave Dravckey
Billy Swift
Bud Black
Danny Darwin
Atlee Hammaker
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Matt Cain
Barry Zito

Answer 10

Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Lefty Grove and Hoyt Wilhelm.