>>>Going to use a bit of the Socratic method here:
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>>>This is a blind baseball analysis. Three pitchers in MLB: Pitcher A, B, and C (all three with at least one Cy Young each, all three with at least one Series ring each)
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>>>Statistics attached in the JPG file. For the three pitchers, I've listed career regular season and post-season W/L record, ERA, K/B ratio, WHIP, etc.
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>>>Here's the question - not knowing the actual names, if you were to rank the three pitchers for Hall of Fame voting (first most likely, second, third), how would you rank them.
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>>>I know that Mike B and Alan P and Tamar G are the baseball fans here, so I'm sure they'll weigh in.
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>>Challenging because of the differences in different stats, but I'll go for A, C, B. That said, I suspect that personality does play into the voting, since the writers get to know these guys over time. For that matter, I guess some off-the-field stuff should count. For example, given two otherwise identical players, if one also was a clubhouse leader, or an integral member of the community (through charitable involvement or working with kids or similar stuff), I'd rank that one ahead of the one who wasn't.
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>>Tamar
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>FYI, I wrote the above before reading down-thread. I was pretty sure who the three were, but not what order. (Guess I should have picked out Maddux based on wins, but I didn't really look at win-less, since it doesn't mean as much as ERA or WHIP.)
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IMO when you're looking at a career, winning close to 100 more games means more than a small difference in inside-baseball stats like WHIP.