Oswalt has the intention of retiring when his contract is up at the end of 2011. He had his fun, made his money, and just wants to enjoy simple life on the farm. Sadly I doubt he makes it.
cordscords wrote:Oswalt has the intention of retiring when his contract is up at the end of 2011. He had his fun, made his money, and just wants to enjoy simple life on the farm. Sadly I doubt he makes it.
cordscords wrote:Oswalt has the intention of retiring when his contract is up at the end of 2011. He had his fun, made his money, and just wants to enjoy simple life on the farm. Sadly I doubt he makes it.
We'll see about that one. I doubt he retires then if he is still a legit #1 pitcher.
The current best pitchers really need to do something in the postseason to bump up their odds. Halladay has never thrown a game in the playoffs, Johan has been a non-factor, CC has been terrible, Oswalt was good in the 2005 NLCS and hasn't been in a few years, and both Webb/Peavy haven't done anything. Not that it's their fault but it's a bit funny how pitching wins championships and all of the best and well established pitchers in the game today are never there.
cordscords wrote:Oswalt has the intention of retiring when his contract is up at the end of 2011. He had his fun, made his money, and just wants to enjoy simple life on the farm. Sadly I doubt he makes it.
And where is a link to this info? I've never heard something like this
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Grounded Polo wrote:The current best pitchers really need to do something in the postseason to bump up their odds. Halladay has never thrown a game in the playoffs, Johan has been a non-factor, CC has been terrible, Oswalt was good in the 2005 NLCS and hasn't been in a few years, and both Webb/Peavy haven't done anything. Not that it's their fault but it's a bit funny how pitching wins championships and all of the best and well established pitchers in the game today are never there.
good point. josh beckett has a better chance than his regular season numbers would suggest. a loooong way to go, but he has better postseason numbers than most great pitchers will have at the end of their careers, and he'll be in the postseason a lot more if he stays productive with the red sox.
cordscords wrote:Oswalt has the intention of retiring when his contract is up at the end of 2011. He had his fun, made his money, and just wants to enjoy simple life on the farm. Sadly I doubt he makes it.
And where is a link to this info? I've never heard something like this
Basically, these guys still have a long way to go.
Lucky for them they are all still relatively young. I wouldn't be surprised if all 4 of them made the Standards average since they have all just recently reached the milestones where it starts scoring the accumlative stats (100 wins 1000 Ks, 1000 IPs). The Monitor might be even easier. Getting into the 225+ wins area and 3000Ks should get all of them over the average. Sure they have some work left to do, but considering the oldest of the group is 32 and CC is 28, I think they all have a very good shot at beating those metrics. Whether it will get them in or not is another story.
Trevor Hoffman and Mariano Rivera will make the HoF. Smoltz, Glavine, and probably Randy Johnson.
As for the young guys, its very hard to predict, Sabathia has a ton of wins for his age, so he has a chance. Santana just needs to keep doing what he's doing for another 7-10 years. Same with Halladay. Oswalt will need alot of counting stats because he has generally not been as dominant as the others. Very hard to predict pitching HoF because it's all about longevity. Doc Gooden was perhaps the best pitcher of the 1980's but he only played at that level for about 8 seasons. You have to have Koufax-like numbers - which is basically being lights out - if you want to make the HoF with anything less than 15 full seasons.
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by cordscords » Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:45 pm 
