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Best
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Baseball Evaluation
Career (Regular Season) |
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| Greg
Maddux - #1 (1986-2008) |
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For twenty straight seasons, Greg Maddux won at least fifteen games. He
came to the park, usually one with a hitter's pedigree, pitched, gave
up few hits, walks, and runs, then won. He led his team to the playoffs
most seasons. He struck people out, #10 on the All-Time list, that is
likely a shock to some less sabermetric fans of the game. And at the
end of the day, that consistency, year after year after year, makes
Greg Maddux the number one pitcher in baseball history and the next
first ballot pitching entrant into Cooperstown's Hall of Fame.
We're going to admit something here that we likely should
not.
When the PEVA calculations were first run, done by season first and
then totaled, we were surprised by this result. But when we dug deeper
into the question, the more we found reasons for Maddux stepping into
the spotlight at the pinnacle. Maddux won 355 games for the #8 spot on
the career list in a time when pitchers pitched in five man rotations
and were removed for closers in tight games. No, he didn't rack up the
innings like the men of Cy Young's or Walter Johnson's time, that will
likely never happen again due to the evolution of the relief pitcher,
but Maddux did what he did in the game he was given.
His ERA + adjusted for park was #31 on the list, and suffered an
increase at the end of his career; it's really the only
blemish on
his record. The other rate stats hold up really well. We
shouldn't
forget that most of the pitchers who rank higher in ERA or
WHIP9
pitched in eras when people did not get lots of hits or score many
runs. Maddux won twenty games only twice, but would have had
two
more seasons in that league had strike seasons of 1994 and 1995, his
best two seasons, not been shortened. In fact, we believe that he would
rank higher on other lists if those seasons were given their full
credit within baseball history for being among the Top Ten Seasons of
All-Time. But we'll stop defending it now, and let you ruminate over
the stats below, the string of seasons from 1992 to 1998 that boggle
your mind and boggled the hitters, too. And we're perfectly fine with
the disagreement some might have, or a personal ranking for Maddux
below this statistical one. That's what makes the baseball world go
round after all.
Greg Maddux Career Stats |
| Year |
Team |
Lg |
W |
SV |
IP |
ERA
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Age
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PEVA-P |
| 1986
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CHN
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NL
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2 |
0 |
31.0 |
5.52 |
20 |
0.492 |
| 1987
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CHN
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NL
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6 |
0 |
155.7 |
5.61 |
21 |
2.470 |
| 1988
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CHN
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NL
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18 |
0 |
249.0 |
3.18 |
22 |
15.180 |
| 1989
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CHN
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NL
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19 |
0 |
238.3 |
2.95 |
23 |
18.870 |
| 1990
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CHN
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NL
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15 |
0 |
237.0 |
3.46 |
24 |
13.693 |
| 1991
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CHN
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NL
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15 |
0 |
263.0 |
3.35 |
25 |
22.395 |
| 1992
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CHN
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NL
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20 |
0 |
268.0 |
2.18 |
26 |
49.969 |
| 1993
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ATL
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NL
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20 |
0 |
267.0 |
2.36 |
27 |
50.920 |
| 1994
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ATL
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NL
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16 |
0 |
202.0 |
1.56 |
28 |
57.974 |
| 1995
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ATL
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NL
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19 |
0 |
209.7 |
1.63 |
29 |
52.118 |
| 1996
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ATL
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NL
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15 |
0 |
245.0 |
2.72 |
30 |
35.136 |
| 1997
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ATL
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NL
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19 |
0 |
232.7 |
2.20 |
31 |
47.132 |
| 1998
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ATL
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NL
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18 |
0 |
251.0 |
2.22 |
32 |
46.792 |
| 1999
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ATL
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NL
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19 |
0 |
219.3 |
3.57 |
33 |
18.052 |
| 2000
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ATL
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NL
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19 |
0 |
249.3 |
3.00 |
34 |
32.027 |
| 2001
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ATL
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NL
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17 |
0 |
233.0 |
3.05 |
35 |
35.904 |
| 2002
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ATL
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NL
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16 |
0 |
199.3 |
2.62 |
36 |
18.307 |
| 2003
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ATL
|
NL
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16 |
0 |
218.3 |
3.96 |
37 |
14.031 |
| 2004
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CHN
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NL
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16 |
0 |
212.7 |
4.02 |
38 |
14.915 |
| 2005
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CHN
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NL
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13 |
0 |
225.0 |
4.24 |
39 |
11.578 |
| 2006
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CHN
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NL
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9 |
0 |
136.3 |
4.69 |
40 |
15.846 |
| 2006
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LAN
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NL
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6 |
0 |
73.7 |
3.30 |
40 |
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| 2007
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SDN
|
NL
|
14 |
0 |
198.0 |
4.14 |
41 |
13.315 |
| 2008
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SDN
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NL
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6 |
0 |
153.3 |
3.99 |
42 |
7.092 |
| 2008
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LAN
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NL
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2 |
0 |
40.7 |
5.09 |
42 |
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Total |
355
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0 |
5008.3
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3.16 |
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594.209 |
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What is PEVA?
PEVA is the acronym for Stat Geek Baseball's New Player Rating value.
This grade is given to each player and pitcher each season,
rating
their performance on a peer to peer review. Six components
for
pitchers and batters are melded together into the PEVA Rating, which
ranges each year from 0.200 to 64.000. For more information on PEVA and
the other new baseballevaluation.com Stats, see our Definitions
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64.000 - Maximum
32.000 - Cy Young/MVP Candidate
20.000 - All League
15.000 - All-Star Level
10.000 - Very Good
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