Fellow Trojan Randy Johnson won his 300th game last night.
I miss the good old days when starting pitchers actually won games on the mound, not in the dugout after throwing six innings and handing it off to the bullpen . . .
Randy Johnson’s 300th Win
The game has changed. Go with it. They even let blacks play in the majors now!
Maybe some Geritol will make you feel better.
A guy goes out now and pitches six innings, gives up three runs or less and he gets a “quality start.” It used to be a guy pitched six innings and gave up three runs, he got cut.
When I grew up loving baseball, my favorite pitchers — Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, Steve Carlton, Bob Gibson, etc. — would kick your ass for nine innings, not six.
The way statistics are calculated hasn’t changed. An ERA is the same now as it was then, and at the end of last season Randy Johnson had a 3.26 lifetime ERA. This year will likely push that up a bit, and he will probably (should) retire at the end of this season.
Bob Gibson never reached 300 wins, and you should be glad St. Louis didn’t really cut guys with a 4.5 ERA or he would never have made it past his second season. His ERA for his final season wasn’t good either.