Throughout history we have witnessed great pitchers on the fields of Major League Baseball. If we speak generically it is easy to mention Cy Young, Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson o Billy Wagner. If we mention some Latinos we cannot leave aside Mariano Rivera, Pedro Martinez o Juan Marichal. And if we go more specifically, at the level of Cubans, the luminaries take us to Luis Tiant, Camilo Pascual, Livan Hernandezeven Orlando Hernandez o Aroldis Chapman.
Over the course of their careers, including that of Aroldis Chapman that is still active, have stood out for their resounding dominance over their rivals. Some with more strikeouts, others with more wins and some with low earned run percentages, but all with an innate sense of placing pitches correctly that makes them stand out among the elite and be the best among the best.
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Aroldis Chapman the best in MLB history
In the history of MLB there are thousands of pitchers who have seen action at least once in a game. However, if we narrow down the search, there have only been 19 pitchers who played at least 700 innings, struck out more than 1,000 opponents, and left a strikeout ratio per nine innings (K/9) greater than 10.0 in their careers.
Of those 19, nine have a K/9 ratio equal to or greater than 11.0 and three are above 12.0. Only two exceed 14.0, they are Craig Kimbrel y Aroldis Chapman. To be more specific, the complete list is made up like this, with the Cuban being the best in this statistic in the history of Major League Baseball:
Aroldis Chapman He is the ninth pitcher with the most games saved (322) and more than 1,000 strikeouts in MLB, with at least 80% of his outings as a reliever. Names of giants in Las Mayores appear on that list, such as Mariano Rivera, Francisco Rodríguez, Trevor Hoffman y Billy Wagner. If we add to this that he is the one that allows the fewest home runs per nine innings (0.6). the sixth best in K/BB ratio with 3.26, Are we talking about one of the best in history? Yeah! Enough to get into the Cooperstown Hall of Fame? We do not know!
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2024-04-11 20:22:15
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