TGJB Wrote:
Pedro didn’t have 100 losses til… his last one, I think. By then he was pitching on brains alone.
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Bingo. Looked him up, 219/100.
To me the thing that really stands out in his stats is that for four out of five years ('99-'03) he led the MAJORS in ERA, while pitching half his games in that lyric little bandbox of a ballpark in Boston. And in the year he "missed", he wasn't eligible because his 18 starts didn't get him enough innings, but his ERA would have been good enough for five-out-of-five.
The thing I really miss about "old" baseball is the chance to see a guy like Pedro baffle big leaguers over 9 innings with skill, smarts, grace and moxie.
