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January 04, 2008
Ringolsby On Red Light
From Tracy Ringolsby via the Rocky Mountain News:
In the midst of Curt Schilling's holier-than-thou pronouncements about late-career booms, it would be interesting to have Schilling explain how he turned a lackluster career at the age of 30 into a dominating effort in the next decade.
At 30, having played with a Philadelphia Phillies team that included Lenny Dykstra and Pete Incaviglia, who were listed in the Mitchell Report, Schilling had a career record of 52-52.
Since he turned 30, Schilling is 164-94. What's more, he was 34 before he won 20 games for the first time and has done it three times in the past seven years.
Well, Curt, whaddya say?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at January 4, 2008 12:21 PM
Comments
Interesting point,Steve.Schill is a great player but he is a intellectually challenged windbag!The guy should just shut up on this issue in that his teammates on the Red Sox got away with being pointed in Mitchell Report.Schill you do it on the field,BUT you are the talking head laughing stock of baseball.All this smack related to off the field play(with the exception of his charity work)crap makes Schill look like a rube!Schill,close your mouth,lose weight get ready for 08 and forget about Clemens and Co and worry about Ortiz and Co!!!
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at January 4, 2008 01:37 PM
I'd say that won-loss records are a craptastic way to evaluate whether or not a pitcher is good. I hate to defend the Boston Blowhard, but look at his rate stats and then reevaluate that opinion. The teams hi played up through age 30 were lackluster; his career stats were not.
Posted by: Ben K. at January 4, 2008 02:38 PM
Schilling was 52-52, yes, but he had a 3.49 ERA and 27 CGs (eight shutouts) through the 1996 season. In that time he had 988 1/3 innings pitched.
In the intervening 2272 2/3 innings Schilling has pitched, he has posted an almost identical 3.44 ERA.
Basically, Ringolsby is only counting three full seasons (and parts of two others) before arbitrarily deciding to start his "late-career" period. Schilling has been a remarkably consistent pitcher over his career, very much unlike Clemens.
Posted by: Tommy at January 4, 2008 02:50 PM
I don't like defending him either, but, as David Pinto states in this post:
http://tinyurl.com/yoknuy
Schilling has already explained his "turn-around."
Posted by: bfriley76 at January 4, 2008 03:22 PM
We're fucking seriously throwing around W-L record as a way to suggest that a pitcher used PED?????
Posted by: SteveB at January 4, 2008 05:49 PM
We're fucking seriously throwing around W-L record as a way to suggest that a pitcher used PED?????
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Only Tracy Ringolsby...
Posted by: Raf at January 4, 2008 05:57 PM
"Only Tracy Ringolsby..."
And, evidently, steve.
Posted by: jakes at January 5, 2008 12:32 AM