CC Best Overall Stein Import At “Jack” Since Moose & Cat?
Posted by Steve Lombardi on November 2, 2009
Using Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Game Finder, for the both the regular season and the post-season, I decided to look at starting pitchers employed by the Steinbrenner family to see which were the most "Jack Morris-like" in both the regular and post-season for the Yankees since 1973. (By, "Jack Morris-like" I mean going at least 7 innings in a start and allowing four earned runs or less while doing it.)
And, here's what I found...first...the regular season stats leaderboard:
From 1973 to 2009, Playing for Yanks, as SP, (requiring IP>=7 and ER<=4),
sorted by greatest number of games matching selected criteria in a regular season
Year Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+ Catfish Hunter 1975 32 Ind. Games Doc Medich 1974 27 Ind. Games Tommy John 1979 27 Ind. Games Mel Stottlemyre 1973 25 Ind. Games Melido Perez 1992 25 Ind. Games Catfish Hunter 1976 25 Ind. Games Ron Guidry 1978 25 Ind. Games Ron Guidry 1985 24 Ind. Games C.C. Sabathia 2009 23 Ind. Games Ed Figueroa 1976 23 Ind. Games Ed Figueroa 1978 23 Ind. Games Pat Dobson 1974 23 Ind. Games Mike Mussina 2001 21 Ind. Games Doc Medich 1975 21 Ind. Games Tommy John 1980 21 Ind. Games Andy Pettitte 1997 20 Ind. Games Mike Mussina 2003 20 Ind. Games Doc Medich 1973 20 Ind. Games Ron Guidry 1979 20 Ind. Games Ron Guidry 1983 20 Ind. Games
And, next...the post-season stats leaderboard:
From 1973 to 2009, Playing for Yanks, as SP, (requiring IP>=7 and ER<=4),
sorted by greatest number of games matching selected criteria in a post-season
Year Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+ Orlando Hernandez 1999 4 Ind. Games David Wells 2003 3 Ind. Games David Wells 1998 3 Ind. Games C.C. Sabathia 2009 3 Ind. Games Andy Pettitte 2003 3 Ind. Games Andy Pettitte 1996 3 Ind. Games Orlando Hernandez 2000 3 Ind. Games Mike Torrez 1977 2 Ind. Games Andy Pettitte 2000 2 Ind. Games Andy Pettitte 2001 2 Ind. Games Andy Pettitte 1998 2 Ind. Games Andy Pettitte 1999 2 Ind. Games Mike Mussina 2001 2 Ind. Games Mike Mussina 2003 2 Ind. Games Jon Lieber 2004 2 Ind. Games Catfish Hunter 1976 2 Ind. Games Orlando Hernandez 1998 2 Ind. Games Ron Guidry 1981 2 Ind. Games Ron Guidry 1978 2 Ind. Games Ron Guidry 1977 2 Ind. Games David Cone 1995 2 Ind. Games David Cone 1999 2 Ind. Games Roger Clemens 2003 2 Ind. Games Roger Clemens 1999 2 Ind. Games Roger Clemens 2000 2 Ind. Games
There's a lot of imports on these lists - as far as the Yankees are concerned. Note: Catfish Hunter, Tommy John, Ed Figueroa, Mike Mussina, Orlando Hernandez, David Wells, Mike Torrez, David Cone and Roger Clemens...and...of course, there's CC Sabathia. (Note that Sabathia's post season numbers, here, are only through Game 4 of the 2009 World Series.)
So, is CC Sabathia the most "Jack Morris-like" pitcher...or, "ace"...that the Yankees have imported, overall, including both the regular season and post-season, since Mike Mussina and, before that, Catfish Hunter?
Looking at these leaderboards, what would you say?
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
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