09-18-2004, 09:39 PM
Seriously. The moment that Wade Boggs became a special player in my eyes is when he stepped on the mound and tosses knuckleballs for a perfect inning.
Pitchers that can hit is just one of the things I love in baseball. To be able to do both at once, you can win a game and carry the team with you. Bill James has that book, Win Shares, where he goes into orgasms over his statistical ananlysis and comes up with a method to determine how much of one winning game can be attributed to a player. It includes pitching and batting, so, I would imagine that there were seasons when Ruth was able to make the largest contributions to winning than any other player ever.
Pitchers that can hit is just one of the things I love in baseball. To be able to do both at once, you can win a game and carry the team with you. Bill James has that book, Win Shares, where he goes into orgasms over his statistical ananlysis and comes up with a method to determine how much of one winning game can be attributed to a player. It includes pitching and batting, so, I would imagine that there were seasons when Ruth was able to make the largest contributions to winning than any other player ever.