after reading that pile of shit.

What a joke.

Actually has a claim of being the greatest of all time at something, which not many people have any claim to

7.

Like SLC I feel stupider having read it, which is no small accomplishment. After beleaguering my poor brain with alcohol and sleep deprivation on Halloween night, I thought I was already as stupid as I was going to get.

Thanks for linking to it Adam.

But Nolan is God!

It’s almost impossible to determine who the greatest pitcher ever is. But it’s asinine to consider a reliever as the GPE.

To identify the greatest pitcher ever requires at minimum, simulation of every pitcher into identical circumstances and situations – probably a few thousand of them in terms of the number of situations simulated. It’s just as inane to stack career numbers including peripherals (which don’t actually exist for the oldest of the old timers) as it is to use strikeouts, wins, shutouts, no hitters, or any other episodic count to say pitcher X or pitcher Y is the greatest. I think Adam may mean to stress that by tangible measures, any given pitcher can be rated better than other given pitchers.

But I really don’t care that Green has his opinion, I’m not dumbed down by his opinions, I’m not suggesting that Ryan is any more than “one of the greats” for his accomplishments, and I don’t think it’s any more important than who was the tallest woman ever, who passed the heaviest turd ever, or who was the worst U.S. President ever. Data can be contrived for any of those cases, but you can’t be absolutely sure.

Fun, huh?

circa 1999-2000.

Because he’s telling us to “take baseball anylisis with a grain of salt” whilst he analyzes himself right down to the level of stupidity of those he’s trying to take a shot at.

Maybe he’s trying to make his headline’s point via supreme irony?

he’s got probably the greatest 1 pitch repertoire that nobody can hit

What a douche. If anyone says different, I’’ll thrown down my velvet gauntlets and challenge them to a donnybrook.

Donnybrook I say!!

a) strikeout record
b) no hitter record
c) longevity — dominated over 20 seasons as a starter

Pitched in a hitters’ era. Cy Young and Walter Johnson— might be better, but it isn’t like you can come even close to objectively comparing their numbers.

I think Roger Clemens is the best ever, fwiw