Re: Warren Spahn RIP: Last of 360 game winners?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> colin campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mpoconnor7) wrote:
> 
> :> Will we ever see another pitcher win over 360 games in the Majors?
> 
> : Not under current conditions.  But conditions could change.  
> 
> Well, assuming Clemens stays retired, there still is a guy with 289 wins 
> through his age 37 season.  Maddux has 49 wins over the last three years.  
> If he gets 40 wins over the next three seasons, that would put him at 329 
> through age 40, and if he's still healthy and interested he'd have a shot.
> 
> Basically, Maddux and Clemens are both ahead of where Spahn was at the 
> same age, which implies to me that it's possible to do under the 
> conditions they pitched in.  
> 
> JHB

After his age 37 season, Spahn won 117 games.  I'm a big Maddux fan but
Spahn had a career like nobody else's.  It sure would be cool if Maddux
could win 20 games four more times,  though.

-- 
Colin Campbell