Best Red Sox Pitcher Ever Too Close to Call

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Dugout Central: Taylor: Best Red Sox Pitcher Ever Too Close to Call
Published 4/7/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Dugout Central: Taylor: Best Red Sox Pitcher Ever Too Close to Call Contacted at his memorabilia shop in the Ben Gurion Airport... Gene Conley seemed pleased. It seems that most teams, like the Mets with Tom Seaver, have one standout pitcher that is head and shoulders above the rest. So I went out to trusty Baseball-Reference to try and find another team that has had two equally great pitchers. It was easy enough to find teams that could be debatable, like the Braves with Spahn and Maddux, but another reason the Appier/Saberhagen debate is such a good one is that their ...

Who was the best Red Sox pitcher?
Published 4/7/2008 by Bjoern at Mojo Blog
... No doubt if you put both on the same field in their primes, Clemens would come out ahead by a large margin. Athletes are in much better shape today than they were around 1900, thanks to overall improved life conditions, more rigorous workout regimes and better medical care (medical enhancements?). But if Cy Young would had been born in the later 60s, who knows if Clemens would still have won all those Cy Youngs Walter Johnson-Awards. Link: Best Red Sox Pitcher Ever Too Close to Call