The Best Fantasy Pitching Season Ever By a non Hall of Famer

BaseballLab posted 4/30/2008 from blog.fbhof.com [flag]

After poor to average seasons for the first seven years of his career, Mike Scott took the world by storm in 1986 thanks to his willingness to learn a new pitch. He also turned in the 9th best Fantasy Pitching performance ever. [link]

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Comments (2)

newgroom422

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Was there any denial from Scott on the accusations of scuffing the ball?

Posted 4/30/2008 [reply] [flag]
- BaseballLab
  
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  From a 2002 Interview, you decide!
  RK: One big controversy that arose during the 1986 season and followed you for the rest of your career were accusations that you doctored the ball in order to pitch more effectively. The Mets handed over dozens of supposedly "scuffed" baseballs to the league commissioner during the 1986 playoffs to no effect. Don Sutton stated later that some pitchers on the staff scuffed balls while he was in Houston, but this was before you joined the team. Did you ever doctor the ball? Did anyone else on the staff? Or were you letting the imaginations of the opposing team get the best of them?
  MS: I let the imaginations of the opponents' get the best of them.
  http://www.astrosdaily.com/players/interviews/Scott_Mike.html
  
  Posted 5/9/2008 [reply] [flag]

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Mike Scott in 86 and Some Methodology Answers
Published 4/30/2008 by Baseball Lab at Sweet Lou's Baseball Lab
... The best pitching season in the Fantasy Era, turned in by someone who isn't to be elected to the Hall of Fame, was Mike Scott's 1986 campaign. He was great, coming in with the 9th best FBHOF score. ...

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