Any discussion of the best Mexican-born pitchers in Major League history starts with Fernando Valenzuela. The left-hander’s numbers speak for themselves: Valenzuela is the all-time leader among Mexican-born hurlers, and by a healthy margin, in wins, strikeouts, innings pitched, complete games,...
Baseball suddenly had a quartet of all-time great starters operating at or near the peak level of any pitchers who’d ever played the game. Against that backdrop, Martinez kept edging closer to the top of the Pitcher Score leaderboard, spending most of the 1998 season cruising in second ...
Jiménez’s 15-1 start -- which included a no-hitter at Atlanta on April 17 -- made him, at the time, one of 48 pitchers in history to win that many games in his team’s first 85 contests. The no-hitter is the only one to date in Rockies history. He led the NL in winning p...
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• NY Mets trade Nolan Ryan to California Angels. Ryan becomes one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Sources: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/10-worst-trades-in-baseball-history.htm#page=1 http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130921&content_id=61302802&vkey=perspec...
The true story of Jeff Bauman, who after losing his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was an integral part of helping police to locate the suspects. ROCKET* by JeffreyGelber, RyanBelenzon— 37 Roger “The Rocket” Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, has 4,672 strik...
These two words conjure up images of home runs, high scoring games, frazzled pitchers, and hits, hits, hits. Coors Fieldhome of the expansion Colorado Rockies team. Home and road batting statistics of Rockies players remind us of the fictional extremes of Superman and Clark Kent, of Mr. ...
The Man of Steal, Rickey Henderson, was not only a world-class baserunner but also a prolific hitter whose skill set made him a menace to opposing pitchers. Over his remarkable 25-year career, Henderson maintained a .279 batting average and set the all-time record for stolen bases, showca...
The 1980s were the decade that the modern baseball closer became popular and it featured some of the best relief pitchers of all time. Here is a look at the best four relief pitchers in Major League baseball during the 1980s. What a player did in that decade is all that is considered ...