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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (colin campbell) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> > colin campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mpoconnor7) wrote:
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> > :> 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.

It would be cool, and Maddux, whose consistency is reminiscent of
Spahn's, would be worthy of 364 wins.  Winning 20 games for 4 more
years would be tough considering he's only done it twice, and with
just 20 wins (no more).  If 75 wins are needed, then 5 years of 15
(which he's done, what, 16 straight years now?) is certainly possible.

Speaking of winning after the age 37 season, Gaylord Perry won 75, and
Nolan Ryan won 93.

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