RIP- Warren Spahn

[vtbub]

While looking something up, MLB.com is reporting that Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn has died. He was 82.

Spahn played his entire career with the Boston and Milwakuee Braves, and with all due respect to Tom Glavine and Steve Carlton, was the finest left hander ever to pitch. He was a 20 game winner in three different decades.

[MrBug708]

When you say finest lefty to pitch and mention Glavine and Charlton, you were excluded Sandy Koufax because he's in a different league right?

[vtbub]

Koufax had 5 incredible years and some lousy ones in the beginning.

Spahn, IIRC, is the all time winningest LHP.

No doubt that had Sandy pitched until his late 30's that it would be close.

[vtbub]

dola...

Pitching Glossary

Year Ag Tm Lg W L G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA *lgERA *ERA+ BFP
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+----+-----+
1942 21 BSN NL 0 0 4 2 0 1 0 0 15.7 25 15 10 0 11 7 5.74 3.35 58 79
1946 25 BSN NL 8 5 24 16 7 8 0 1 125.7 107 46 41 6 36 67 2.94 3.45 117 514
1947 26 BSN NL 21 10 40 35 4 22 7 3 289.7 245 87 75 15 84 123 2.33 3.90 168 1174
1948 27 BSN NL 15 12 36 35 1 16 3 1 257.0 237 115 106 19 77 114 3.71 3.84 103 1064
1949 28 BSN NL 21 14 38 38 0 25 4 0 302.3 283 125 103 27 86 151 3.07 3.80 124 1258
1950 29 BSN NL 21 17 41 39 2 25 1 1 293.0 248 123 103 22 111 191 3.16 3.85 122 1217
1951 30 BSN NL 22 14 39 36 3 26 7 0 310.7 278 111 103 20 109 164 2.98 3.68 123 1289
1952 31 BSN NL 14 19 40 35 5 19 5 3 290.0 263 109 96 19 73 183 2.98 3.62 121 1190
1953 32 MLN NL 23 7 35 32 3 24 5 3 265.7 211 75 62 14 70 148 2.10 3.94 188 1055
1954 33 MLN NL 21 12 39 34 2 23 1 3 283.3 262 107 99 24 86 136 3.14 3.75 119 1175
1955 34 MLN NL 17 14 39 32 7 16 1 1 245.7 249 99 89 25 65 110 3.26 3.75 115 1025
1956 35 MLN NL 20 11 39 35 3 20 3 3 281.3 249 92 87 25 52 128 2.78 3.47 125 1113
1957 36 MLN NL 21 11 39 35 4 18 4 3 271.0 241 94 81 23 78 111 2.69 3.49 130 1111
1958 37 MLN NL 22 11 38 36 1 23 2 1 290.0 257 106 99 29 76 150 3.07 3.52 114 1176
1959 38 MLN NL 21 15 40 36 3 21 4 0 292.0 282 106 96 21 70 143 2.96 3.55 120 1203
1960 39 MLN NL 21 10 40 33 5 18 4 2 267.7 254 114 104 24 74 154 3.50 3.42 98 1110
1961 40 MLN NL 21 13 38 34 3 21 4 0 262.7 236 96 88 24 64 115 3.02 3.75 124 1064
1962 41 MLN NL 18 14 34 34 0 22 0 0 269.3 248 97 91 25 55 118 3.04 3.78 124 1088
1963 42 MLN NL 23 7 33 33 0 22 7 0 259.7 241 85 75 23 49 102 2.60 3.22 124 1037
1964 43 MLN NL 6 13 38 25 11 4 1 4 173.7 204 110 102 23 52 78 5.29 3.54 67 759
1965 44 NYM NL 4 12 20 19 1 5 0 0 126.0 140 70 61 18 35 56 4.36 3.54 81 543
SFG NL 3 4 16 11 2 3 0 0 71.7 70 34 27 8 21 34 3.39 3.61 106 303
TOT NL 7 16 36 30 3 8 0 0 197.7 210 104 88 26 56 90 4.01 3.56 89 846
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+----+-----+
21 Yr WL% .597 363 245 750 665 67 382 63 29 5243.7 4830 2016 1798 434 1434 2583 3.09 3.65 118
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+----+-----+

[CamEdwards]

I had the occassion to meet Mr. Spahn a few years ago. Class guy, great stories, and an even greater loss.

[Alan T]

Warren Spahn is in my opinion a pitcher who gets no where near enough credit for as good of a pitcher as he was.. I won't turn this thread into a discussion if he was or was not as good as Carlton, but as a life long Braves fan, this is a sad day for me...

[MrBug708]

I will agree that Spahn was a great pitcher, one of the best lefties. Koufax hung it up rather then ruin his arm. You won't see many people do that

[Alan T]

dola..


And we will always remember:

"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain" ... some might say I mold my OOTP postseason rotations after that....

[Ksyrup]

Steve Carlton was my idol...but I'd probably give Spahn the nod. Great pitcher.

[Killebrew]

That's too bad, Spahn is under appreciated. He was so good and so consistant for so long.

[Buccaneer]

Originally posted by CamEdwards
I had the occassion to meet Mr. Spahn a few years ago. Class guy, great stories, and an even greater loss.

I met him at a card show back in the 80s and he truly was a class guy. He is definitely underappreciated but he certainly had a career to be proud of.

[vex]

I used to live a mile away from Spahn, have an autographed pennant on my wall in fact.