'99 and '00 Pedro Blows Kershaw Out Of The Water

[navamind]

Hershiser was 1988. Pretty sick year but I give the edge to Pedro.

Agreed. Hershiser's last 9 starts that year:

82 IP, 8 complete games, 57 K, 15 BB, 48 hits allowed, 4 R (all earned), 0.44 ERA, .403 OPS against

Pretty amazing stretch.

Pedro was putting up batshit insane K/BB ratios. Hell, only 5.3 hits per 9 IP, 4th best all-time among single seasons.

 

[steveringo]

Best seasons ever (by ERA+)

1) Tim Keefe 1880
2) Pedro Martinez 2000
3) Dutch Leonard 1914
4) Greg Maddux 1994
5) Greg Maddux 1996
6) Walter Johnson 1913
7) Bob Gibson 1968
8) Mordecai Brown 1906
9) Pedro Martinez 1999
10) Walter Johnson 1912

Single-Season Leaders &amp Records for Adjusted ERA+ | Baseball-Reference.com

Kershaw comes in at 39) 2014 & 47) 2013


And isn't it wild that 6 of the top ten were back to back years by the same pitchers...

Wow, some of those go back pretty far with The Big Train and Three Finger Brown. I'm not sure who Tim Keefe is, but I bet he has a pretty cool nickname.

Yep... The history is a big part of the reason we love baseball.

To think most of witnessed four of the best seasons ever by starting pitchers. And to think Maddux and Martinez pitched durring the steroid era....

 

[steveringo]

Another of my favorite stats is k/9. Kershaw's 2014 comes in a #25 all-time.

Think about how awesome that is... Then think about what the fuck The Big Unit was doing...

1 Randy Johnson (37) / 13.4099 / 2001
2 Pedro Martinez (27) / 13.2047 / 1999
3 Kerry Wood (21) / 12.582 / 1998
4 Randy Johnson (36) / 12.559 / 2000
5 Randy Johnson (31) / 12.3453 / 1995
6 Randy Johnson (33) / 12.2958 / 1997
7 Randy Johnson (34) / 12.1187 / 1998
8 Randy Johnson (35) / 12.0589 / 1999
9 Yu Darvish (26) / 11.8903 / 2013
10 Pedro Martinez (28) / 11.7788 / 2000
11 Randy Johnson (38) / 11.5615 / 2002
12 Nolan Ryan+ (40) / 11.4803 / 1987
13 Dwight Gooden (19) / 11.3945 / 1984
14 Pedro Martinez (25) / 11.3743 / 1997
15 Kerry Wood (26) / 11.346 / 2003
16 Nolan Ryan+ (42) / 11.3189 / 1989
17 Curt Schilling (30) / 11.2883 / 1997
18 Kerry Wood (24) / 11.2027 / 2001
19 Hideo Nomo (26) / 11.101 / 1995
20 Max Scherzer (27) / 11.0782 / 2012
21 Oliver Perez (22) / 10.9745 / 2004
22 Curt Schilling (35) / 10.9666 / 2002
23 Erik Bedard (28) / 10.9286 / 2007
24 Randy Johnson (29) / 10.8564 / 1993
25 Clayton Kershaw (26) / 10.8454 / 2014
26 Pedro Martinez (30) / 10.791 / 2002
27 Chris Sale (25) / 10.7586 / 2014
28 Sam McDowell (22) / 10.7143 / 1965
29 Randy Johnson (30) / 10.6744 / 1994
30 Randy Johnson (40) / 10.6242 / 2004

 

[Loneranger]

That version of Pedro is the best pitcher I've ever seen. It seemed like he was hitting double digit K's every game, just lights out. I've heard Orel Hershiser had a stretch in the late 80s that was unreal as well but that was a bit before my time.

I have to admit I never like Pedro but there is no denying he was incredible and not just for 2 yrs. The man was a great pitcher. I watched all of Hershiser's career and can tell you there is no one who compares him to Pedro in any way. Hershiser was a good pitcher but he was no Pedro. As for Kershaw , well he's a tremendous talent and will probably go down as one of the very best we've ever seen. Too bad he's wasting such great yrs on the West Coast where no one gives a shit.