Rank these pitchers?

Question

Please rank the following pitchers from best on down. Think of it as a draft knowing exactly what kind of career they will have. Please provide some basic reasoning behind your rankings - reasoning that extends beyond "He rocks!" :-)

I'm not saying these are the 4 greatest hurlers of all time so please refrain including pitchers I have not mentioned. Thanks in advance for your thoughtful responses. Alphabetically the pitchers are:

Roger Clemens
Greg Maddux
Nolan Ryan
Tom Seaver

Answer 1

Roger Clemens - Considered by most every baseball expert as the 3rd greatest pitcher in baseball history. His K's and career ERA are exceptional plus he can intimidate hitters like few have been able to.

Tom (Terrific) Seaver - Had the best mechanics of any pitcher I ever saw. 300 plus wins, over 3000 K's and a fantastic career ERA under 3. He was money!

Greg Maddux - One of the best pitchers of his era. 4 Cy Young awards and 340 plus wins. His great fortune has been that he has been playing on some great Braves teams. He could pass Clemens on the total win list one day.

Nolan Ryan - The most overrated pitcher in baseball history. Win a career win-loss record slightly over .500 he was very hitable. When he was on, he was good but when he wasn't he was just a one dimensional pitcher. With 7 no-hitter and nearly 6000 K's (5710 K's I think), he was someone to fear. However he never could win the big game. Ref: 1980 NLCS game 5 when the Phillies beat his brains in.

Answer 2

Roger Clemens-2 WS titles, 7 Cy Young awards, 350+ wins and over 4500 K's, he is the most dominant pitcher of the last 30 yrs of baseball.

Tom Seaver-300+ wins, 3 Cy Youngs and 3600K's and a World Series title

Nolan Ryan-all-time strikeout king 5714K's, 324 wins with some AWFUL teams and a World Series title (which was won with Seaver and the Mets in '69)

Greg Maddux-true, he has the Cy Youngs (4), 345 wins and 3600K's and a title with the Braves, but who would you rather face...Maddux with his breaking ball at 80MPH or Nolan Ryan throwing 100MPH under your chin??

This could be the greatest right-handed rotation of all-time. Can you imagine if all these guys played on the same team at the same time??

Answer 3

Greg Maddux, perfect string of seasons on account that Sandy Koufax. Roger Clemens, ignoring the steroids makes him a million or 2, purely those little dips in ninety six, 2002, 2003 places him in the back of Maddux Tom Seaver. i've got faith belongs interior the perfect 10 of all time and easily, the others do no longer. Randy Johnson. The left surpassed version of Clemens took slightly longer to be than Roger did. Pedro Martinez. recommendations-blowing #'s whilst in comparison along with his friends, purely injuries and adulthood stops him from being suitable 10 of all time. Steve Carlton. would desire to win the video games on undesirable communities that Ryan could no longer. Nolan Ryan. probable the main overrated pitcher through fact human beings think of that one or 2 differences ability your an wonderful pitcher. fact be everyday, loss of administration grew to become into one clarification for single seaon and profession strikeout information as nicely as walk information. slightly a .500 pitcher on undesirable communities the place different 'super' pitchers would desire to be (on undesirable communities) Fergie Jenkins - no longer person-friendly battler, super tangibles and intangibles and hello, he's Canadian. Phil Niekro no longer person-friendly to place knuckleballers interior the comparable type through fact jointly as ability pitchers and finesse pitchers understand which course they pass in, for Knuckleballers, this is ''ahh, someplace around there" Gaylord Perry, theory Phil grew to become into greater ideal and those 2 have been going 9 and 10 besides.

Answer 4

Ryan-I believe that he had the most talent out of all of them but just didn't get the wins because the teams he played for were horrible. I saw in a Sports illustrated By the Numbers column that he threw out the first pitch at a minor legue game earlier this season and hit 83 on the radar gun.

Seaver- Great stuff like all of these pitchers and got it done at an old age.

Clemens-Great pitcher with a ton of wins and great stuff. Falling off tis season though and that hurts his status in my mind.

Maddux-He just gets it done. At best average stuff but knows how to use it and is the best prepared pitcher. Also a good fielder.

Answer 5

Greg Maddux, GR8 control pitcher
Tom Seaver
Nolan Ryan
Roger Clemens

Answer 6

1. Nolan Ryan
2. Tom Seaver
3. Greg Maddux
4. Roger Clemens

Answer 7

1.Ryan: Greatest pitcher of all time-next to cy young
2.Seaver-Better than clemens by a bit
3.Clemens-self-explanatory
4.Maddux-could pass clemens in a couple of years

Answer 8

Ryan
Seaver
Clemens
Maddux

Ryan is the best of all time, almost 6000 K's; 300+ wins.
Seaver-Great in his time, when pitching wasnt so watered down
Clemens-Great Career-dont like the part time playing now.
Maddux-Falls at the end because someone had to...all these guys are HOF or future HOF, for sure.

Answer 9

1. Roger Clemens - 3.13 ERA, 4600 K's, 4900 IP, 1.17 WHIP

2. Tom Seaver - 2.86 ERA, 3640 K's, 4800 IP, 1.12 WHIP

3.Greg Maddux - 3.09 ERA, 3300 K's, 4800 IP, 1.14 WHIP

4. Nolan Ryan - 3.19 ERA, 5714 K's, 5400 IP, 1.25 WHIP

I dunno, I just kinda let the numbers speak for themselves since no one else has. Clemens gets the top spot for being in, what what feel was a slightly more difficult era for pitchers. Plus he misses more bats, making for a better chance of a dominant performance. Nolan Ryan hurt himself over his career for always thinking about the strikeout. He walked way too many guys, inflating some of his numbers (WHIP, and as a result, ERA.)

Answer 10

In their prime years I would rank them:
1-Seaver
2-Clemens
3-Ryan
4-Maddux
All are HOF quality pitchers and very equal in talent in different ways.