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re: Paul Skenes will go down as the best baseball player ever
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:53 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:53 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Shohei Ohtani(if he can stay healthy) and Babe Ruth
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Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:01 am to NorthshoreTiger76
A pitcher can't be the best baseball player ever. They dont even contribute to the offensive side of the game.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 4:33 am to NorthshoreTiger76
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This post was edited on 7/12/24 at 5:16 am
Posted on 7/12/24 at 5:49 am to NorthshoreTiger76
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Paul Skenes will go down as the best baseball player ever
He's got a long way to go before you can even compare him to the greats.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 7:02 am to lsupride87
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This used to be a thing
They have tons of film on skenes already. He threw a shite ton of innings at play and everyone of them is on film
I still just can’t believe people think “watching film” is going to make a guy hittable
The only thing “film” helps with is if he is giving a tell of what he’s about to throw. He commands all of his stuff and there is actual advanced metrics to back up the eye test of how elite his spin rate and velo is. On top of that, if you just sit there and watch pitches, he can throw anything for a strike.
Injury is the only thing that could change his career. It’s not going to be because people are adjusting.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 7:56 am to Rickdaddy4188
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A pitcher can't be the best baseball player ever. They dont even contribute to the offensive side of the game.
There was once a pitcher who got 6 hits in the span of 2 seconds...
Posted on 7/12/24 at 10:20 am to Ash Williams
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He could strike out Chuck Norris
Now we’re just getting carried away
Posted on 7/12/24 at 10:44 am to NorthshoreTiger76
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Yea ever no one is better than him
Lmao. I remember when I had my first beer
Posted on 7/12/24 at 11:09 am to NorthshoreTiger76
I can’t imagine a world where LSU will have a pitcher better than Paul Skenes. LSU was fortunate to have Skenes pitching for them.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 11:28 am to NorthshoreTiger76
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Yea ever no one is better than him
Slow the roll, I like Skenes, but there is no way a pitcher from the modern era can ever hold this title.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 11:43 am to tiger81
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Babe Ruth would like a word. And not just because of his bat....he was also one of the best pitchers of his era.
Meh...anyone who played in a segregated league can't be considered the GOAT.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 12:22 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Why are LSU fans so retarded?
Posted on 7/12/24 at 3:42 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
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Paul Skenes will go down as the best baseball player ever
Don’t sell the man short. He will be the greatest human who ever lived.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 4:17 pm to High C
He was also a good hitter for Air Force his Freshman and Sophomore years. Imagine him DHing as well, which will never happen.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 5:26 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
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Paul Skenes will go down as the best baseball player ever
I don't even think you believe this
Posted on 7/12/24 at 5:29 pm to SaveFarris
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This post was edited on 10/1/24 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 7/12/24 at 6:05 pm to lsuconnman
The way the progression of these threads is going the next one will be "Paul Skenes is already the best player in MLB history"
Posted on 7/12/24 at 7:13 pm to pwejr88
Where, at the Air Force Academy?
Posted on 7/13/24 at 5:35 am to NorthshoreTiger76
At LSU?
Posted on 7/13/24 at 6:57 am to NorthshoreTiger76
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Yea ever no one is better than him
Randy Johnson threw as hard as Skenes and would be a good comparison. He was the best modern day pitcher:
Skenes wont likely reach 300 wins because of the number of starts or length of outings (will get no decisions once he is pulled). It’ll help his ERA if he is pulled in the 6th or 7th because he won tire and have to face the hitters a 4th or 5th time.
Johnson’s stats
Career Stats: 303-166, 4135.1 IP, 3.29 ERA, 10.61 K/9, 3.25 K/BB, 110.6 WAR
Five-Year Peak: 1998-2002
“Flamethrowers aren't supposed to get better with age, but Randy Johnson in his late 30s was quite the exception to that rule.
The Big Unit won 100 games from 1998 to 2002 between Seattle, Houston and Arizona. The brief stop in Houston was the most ridiculous, as he went 10-1 in 11 starts with four shutouts and a 1.28 ERA. He actually got a couple of votes for the 1998 NL Cy Young, even though he was only with the Astros for two months. He did win the Cy Young in each of the next four seasons with the Diamondbacks. During those five years, he had a 2.63 ERA.
The unreal numbers were the strikeouts, though. Johnson fanned at least 329 batters in five straight seasons. In the last four decades, a pitcher has struck out at least 320 batters in a season five times, and Johnson accomplished all of them. Consecutively. His K/9 during this half decade was 12.33.”
Here’s a little bit of a fun fact:
In 1978 Ron Guidry did the following:
25-3 1.74 ERA.
It was one of the best seasons I’ve ever seen by a pitcher.
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