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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

The babblefest of Jack Morris, best pitcher of the decade

By Tangotiger, 03:11 PM

The best pitcher of the 1980s.

I’m sure you’ve heard that plenty, right?  About Jack Morris?  Just take some arbitrary 10-year period, preferably bordered by round numbers, like “80s”, and you have your test of greatness.  Why not “pitcher of the decade”, and take something like 1976-1985?  Or 1986-1995?

Anyway, let’s get back to 1980-1989.  In that time period, Jack Morris led the league with 2443.2 innings.  Let’s set the minimum IP qualifier to 80% of that (1955 IP).  We actually get back only 11 pitchers.  Among those pitchers:

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