Lloyd Peever going in college baseball hall of fame

I don't think so, but I do love this quote Peever attributed to Skip on LSUSports.net:

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Peever attributed a great deal of his success that season to Bertman’s guidance.

“Skip embedded in my mind how much greater your chance of getting the batter out becomes by just throwing the ball over the plate,” Peever said. “I found myself taking a little off pitches to make sure it was a strike a lot and it paid off that season. It was an amazing streak.”

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We sure felt what the opposite approach does this past season.

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Whatever happened to this supposedly moving to Baton Rouge?

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Wonder if that’s enough to put his # in the rafters Only one year at lsu

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I will put up his single season against ANY pitcher ever in this program including Skenes. He was just flat out dominating. That Ole Miss (?) game where he was beamed was incredible and the man came back and won another 4 games. The 39 straight innings without a walk was unreal as well.
When he took the mound, you could count it. He could have ended with 2 more wins had he not been sidelined by that hit. I still don’t know how he lived through that. It was square. Tough guy for sure.
The dude gave up a total of 67 hits in 17 games. I mean not much else to say but dominating the competition.
His command is what separated him. Nola was similar to him but the types of bats Nola faced weren’t the same as what he faced just Nolan faced a larger volume of quality hitters. Same with Skenes.
“For 1992, he transferred to LSU and posted a 14–0 win–loss record, a 1.98 ERA, three complete games and a shutout in 17 appearances (15 starts). In 104.2 innings, he allowed only 67 hits and 20 walks, while striking out 116 batters. His campaign, dubbed "one of the best individual seasons ever in college baseball,"[2] earned him numerous honors and considerable recognition. He was named Collegiate Baseball Player of the Year by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, earned All-American selections by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Baseball America, was voted first team all-Southeastern Conference, earned a selection to the SEC all-tournament team and was twice named National Player of the Week.[2] He was also a Golden Spikes Award finalist.[3]”

Nola struck out batters at a higher clip his junior year and, to your point, played a tougher schedule than Peever. That's got nothing really to do with technology of bats and balls.

These are both all time greats, my point was just saying if we retired Peever's number, Nola would have to be considered, as would likely a couple others.


Peever:

14-0
1.98 ERA (lsusports.net says 1.92)
17 games, 104.2 innings
67 hits (0.64 hits per inning)
20 walks
116 strikeouts (1.11 strikeouts per inning)


Nola Sophomore Year:

12-1
1.57 ERA
17 games, 126 innings
83 hits (0.66 hits per inning)
18 walks
122 strikeouts (0.968 strikeouts per inning)

Nola Junior Year:

11-1
1.47 ERA
16 games, 116.1 innings
69 hits (0.59 hits per inning)
27 walks
134 strikeouts ( 1.15 strikeouts per inning)

Peever had a hell of a year.

Those are impressive accomplishments

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this was the idiot saying we shouldn't care about the 1997 Home Run Record by LSU even if Georgia passed us up

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I will put up his single season against ANY pitcher ever in this program including Skenes.

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Skenes numbers are better except for the complete game, shutouts (which require a complete game to be tied to that pitcher), and win-loss, and no reasonable person uses those as a primary metric by which to judge pitchers. But that 39 straight innings with no walks to open the season is insane, and I am not sure we will ever see that again.

Peever - 1.98 ERA, 14-0, 3 complete games, 1 shutout in 17 appearances (15 starts). 104.2 IP, 67 hits, 20 walks,116 Ks.

Skenes - 1.69 ERA, 13-2, 2 complete games in 19 appearances (19 starts), 122.2 IP, 72 hits, 20 walks, 209 Ks.

Those are two great seasons.