Comments on: Not So Gross After All? http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3616 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: tmckelv http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3616/comment-page-1#comment-10147 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:02:10 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3616#comment-10147 I like that Joe and Phil Niekro both had 6 such seasons.

]]> By: gerry http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3616/comment-page-1#comment-10070 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:00:01 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3616#comment-10070 What surprises me about the list is that 24 of the 28 were active after 1960 (which on a personal level means they played recently enough that I've been able to see them). Of course, after 1960 means after expansion, and it stands to reason that more teams means more pitchers which means more mid-rotation inning eaters. I suppose 5-man rotation also works in favor of getting on the list, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised that the list is so heavily weighted toward the 1960s and beyond. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

]]> By: dave http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3616/comment-page-1#comment-10060 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:20:20 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3616#comment-10060 All I know about Kevin Gross is his May 14, 1990 feat with Fernando

]]> By: DavidRF http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3616/comment-page-1#comment-10058 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:33:44 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3616#comment-10058 Tanana was easily the best Angel pitcher of the mid-to-late 70s which says something because Nolan Ryan was also on the staff. He got hurt, though, and lost his fastball and had to reinvent himself as a junkball pitcher who nobody could really get too excited about. Still, its impressive that he could put together so many middle-of-the-rotation, innings-eating seasons *after* losing his best pitch due to injury.

]]> By: Andy http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3616/comment-page-1#comment-10054 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:57:54 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3616#comment-10054 Frank Tanana is a pretty underrated guy, I think, mainly because he hung around for a long time and many of today's fans can remember him as a fairly ineffective pitcher. But he was quite reliable and productive in his day, if not stellar on a routine basis.

Way to go with the table formatting, Steve!

]]> By: Rich http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3616/comment-page-1#comment-10051 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:42:05 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3616#comment-10051 Don Sutton is the ultimate compiler.

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