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The Best Pitcher of the Past 5 years


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Reading through the Halladay thread, a lot of opinions are thrown around of who has been "arguably the best pitcher" of the past few years. Kalapse commented that he would love to see the argument that Halladay has been the best, and after thinking about that, I agree. So present your argument of why any pitcher has been the best pitcher of the past 5 years. Since this year has not concluded, lets use 2003-2008 for the statistics of your argument. I am sure that there are plenty of statistic-savvy posters on this site who will have plenty of different perspectives and opinions of what they feel is the best pitcher of the past 5 years.

 

So who is it going to be? Halladay? Santana? K-Rod? Beckett? CC Sabathia? Haren? Present your case.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And please, lets keep it civil.

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'03-'08 is a six year span, not five. Anyway . . .

 

Highest ERA+ between '03 and '08 w/ at least 1000 IP over that span:

 

1.) 156 - Johan Santana

2.) 143 - Brandon Webb

3.) 140 - Roy Halladay

4.) 136 - Roy Oswalt

5.) 132 - Carlos Zambrano

6.) 128 - CC Sabathia

7.) 125 - Jake Peavy

7.) 125 - Ben Sheets

9.) 124 - Tim Hudson

0.) 119 - Mark Buehrle

 

Josh Beckett is 12th

 

This is more or less what I was talking about:

 

Highest ERA+ from '07 to date (min: 450 IP):

 

1.) 152 - Dan Haren

2.) 150 - Tim Lincecum

3.) 146 - Johan Santana

4.) 144 - CC Sabathia

4.) 144 - Brandon Webb

6.) 138 - Roy Halladay

7.) 135 - Jake Peavy

8.) 132 - Josh Beckett

9.) 128 - Matt Cain

9.) 128 - Adam Wainwright

11.) 127 - Mark Buehrle

12.) 126 - Felix Hernandez

12.) 126 - Cole Hamels

12.) 126 - John Lackey

12.) 126 - Cliff Lee

16.) 125 - Roy Oswalt

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Since 2005, Johan Santana has an ERA of 2.88, 1041 strikeouts, an ERA+ of 151, has thrown 1042 innings, gives up 7.5 hits per 9, has a 1.064 WHIP. He leads every single one of those categories out of the starting pitchers you named. He leads more categories too I'm just not going to write them all.

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QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 09:29 PM)
'03-'08 is a six year span, not five. Anyway . . .

 

Highest ERA+ between '03 and '08 w/ at least 1000 IP over that span:

 

1.) 156 - Johan Santana

2.) 143 - Brandon Webb

3.) 140 - Roy Halladay

4.) 136 - Roy Oswalt

5.) 132 - Carlos Zambrano

6.) 128 - CC Sabathia

7.) 125 - Jake Peavy

7.) 125 - Ben Sheets

9.) 124 - Tim Hudson

0.) 119 - Mark Buehrle

 

Josh Beckett is 12th

 

This is more or less what I was talking about:

 

Highest ERA+ from '07 to date (min: 450 IP):

 

1.) 152 - Dan Haren

2.) 150 - Tim Lincecum

3.) 146 - Johan Santana

4.) 144 - CC Sabathia

4.) 144 - Brandon Webb

6.) 138 - Roy Halladay

7.) 135 - Jake Peavy

8.) 132 - Josh Beckett

9.) 128 - Matt Cain

9.) 128 - Adam Wainwright

11.) 127 - Mark Buehrle

12.) 126 - Felix Hernandez

12.) 126 - Cole Hamels

12.) 126 - John Lackey

12.) 126 - Cliff Lee

16.) 125 - Roy Oswalt

 

Did you get baseball reference's play index?

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QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 08:10 PM)
Tim Lincecum and Dan Haren are the 2 best pitchers in baseball right now. And as we say in Serbian, "TAĆKA."

Depending on how you define "Right now", I have to fire back with Greinke and King Felix, who are putting up incredible numbers in the big league circuit, either season-long or over the last 6 weeks or so.

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I was going to say Santana with out looking at any stats, so glad to see that the stats back that up. Awesome to see Mark in the top 10 there as well. If any of you stat guys have some time I'd be interested to see where Buehrle ranks since he came into the league overall.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 10:17 PM)
Depending on how you define "Right now", I have to fire back with Greinke and King Felix, who are putting up incredible numbers in the big league circuit, either season-long or over the last 6 weeks or so.

Grienke hasn't been nearly as good since his amazing start, though he's pitched a few really good ones amidst some mediocre to bad ones. He's been giving up more unearned runs lately, and obviously if he's amongst the best pitchers in the game, he'd pitch over them a little better. I'm not a fan until he starts putting up consistent dominating numbers. Haren and Lincecum do that. King Felix I'll give you though. He's really been a forgotten stud. I seem to always forget about him. I'd put him 3rd after Lincecum and Haren.

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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 10:20 PM)
I was going to say Santana with out looking at any stats, so glad to see that the stats back that up. Awesome to see Mark in the top 10 there as well. If any of you stat guys have some time I'd be interested to see where Buehrle ranks since he came into the league overall.

Best pitchers by ERA+ from 2001 to present w/ at least 1530 IP over that time (180 IP per + 90 IP for this year): (keep in mind this is an incredibly subjective timespan)

 

1.) 152 - Johan Santana

2.) 144 - Roy Halladay

3.) 137 - Roy Oswalt

4.) 132 - Randy Johnson

5.) 127 - Tim Hudson (everybody forgets about Tim Hudson)

6.) 123 - Mark Buehrle

7.) 121 - CC Sabathia

8.) 117 - Derek Lowe

9.) 114 - Mike Mussina

9.) 114 - Andy Pettitte

 

Mark has the most IP in the game over that timespan.

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QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 09:35 PM)
Best pitchers by ERA+ from 2001 to present w/ at least 1530 IP over that time (180 IP per + 90 IP for this year): (keep in mind this is an incredibly subjective timespan)

 

1.) 152 - Johan Santana

2.) 144 - Roy Halladay

3.) 137 - Roy Oswalt

4.) 132 - Randy Johnson

5.) 127 - Tim Hudson (everybody forgets about Tim Hudson)

6.) 123 - Mark Buehrle

7.) 121 - CC Sabathia

8.) 117 - Derek Lowe

9.) 114 - Mike Mussina

9.) 114 - Andy Pettitte

Good stuff. I appreciate it.

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 07:24 AM)
How has Santana been since he has been in NY? The same?

No, he hasn't been "The same" since he went to NY. He's 1 step below where he was with the Twins, which is still really, really good. Basically, he's progressing exactly like a pitcher should; his best seasons were when he was 25-28 years old.

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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 19, 2009 -> 10:20 PM)
I was going to say Santana with out looking at any stats, so glad to see that the stats back that up. Awesome to see Mark in the top 10 there as well. If any of you stat guys have some time I'd be interested to see where Buehrle ranks since he came into the league overall.

 

Johan Santana has been the best pitcher in baseball for years, and almost nobody ever seems to actually want to admit that.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 11:07 AM)
No, he hasn't been "The same" since he went to NY. He's 1 step below where he was with the Twins, which is still really, really good. Basically, he's progressing exactly like a pitcher should; his best seasons were when he was 25-28 years old.

He can't help if their bullpen has been lousy.

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QUOTE (rangercal @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 09:45 AM)
Fixed.

 

I don't see how Haren's overall numbers are better than Johan the last 3 years.

Major league ranks since the start of the '07 season:

        Haren Santana

ERA+: 1st 3rd

WHIP: 1st 3rd

K/9: 7th 4th

K/BB: 1st 9th

IP: 3rd 3rd

HR/9: 14th 24th

QS%: 1st 3rd

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