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MLB's Five Great Pitching Trios

The Five Great Pitching Trios It hasn’t occurred very often that three pitchers rise to the challenge and cause a team to ascend to great heights because of their efforts. The stars aligned for this to occur about once an era...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 3 days ago 59 reads 6 comments
The Best Pitchers NOT In the Hall of Fame: Who Got Overlooked

As faithful baseball fans, we depend on the Hall of Fame to show us who the truly great players are. The players who dominated, not just for a season or two, but for years...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 19 days ago 1,252 reads 52 comments
The Worst Pitchers in the HOF: Searching for History's Bottom Line

What qualifies a pitcher for the Hall of Fame? Today, we have set the bar quite high, demanding 300 wins, and ignoring a pitcher with 3,000 strikeouts and 60 shutouts year after year on the HOF ballot...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 2 months ago 875 reads 45 comments
William "Dummy" Hoy; Proving It Could Be Done!

William "Dummy" Hoy, baseball's third deaf major league player, left a legacy worth knowing. He was born May 23, 1862 in Houcktown, Ohio. He graduated valedictorian of his class from the Ohio School for the Deaf...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 3 months ago 191 reads 17 comments
The Greatest Pitching Careers Of The Modern Era

This is part two of this continued article. Here is a link to part one - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/239223-ranking-the-top-pitching-careers-of-the-modern-era Although not every pitcher ...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 3 months ago 276 reads 8 comments
Ranking The Top Pitching Careers Of The Modern Era

Ranking the Top Pitchers of the Modern Era This article is really the culmination of a series of studies looking at each era of the game and aspects of what makes a pitcher great...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 3 months ago 180 reads 14 comments
Bert Blyleven, Waiting in the Wings: New Perspectives

During the course of baseball history, from the very beginning in 1876 until now, only 29 major league pitchers have forged their way to what I call an epic career—one that has included 4500 or more innings of pitching...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 4 months ago 197 reads 24 comments
The Pioneers of Pitching: The Top Pitchers of the Pre-Modern Era

The Pioneers of Pitching; the Top Hurlers of the Pre-Modern Era (1876 - 1901) With my goal of ranking pitchers across eras, this is a period of baseball I put off to the side...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 4 months ago 182 reads 27 comments
The Ten Greatest Left-Handed Pitchers: A Legacy Worth Knowing

The Top Ten Left-handed Pitchers of the Modern Era “Daddy—What’s a southpaw?” was the line I recently heard watching “Field of Dreams,” in the scene where ...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 4 months ago 704 reads 45 comments
Peak Performance: The Top 20 Pitching Peaks Of The Modern Era

Peak Performance! The Top 20 Pitching Peaks in Modern Baseball As I started research on the best pitchers in each era of baseball, the concept of a peak in a pitcher’s career was somewhat nebulous and undefined in my understanding...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 4 months ago 184 reads 18 comments
Baseball's Greatest Pitching Seasons: The Prime Nine Revisited

The Best Ever Seasons by Starting Pitchers: The Prime Nine Revisited The best seasons ever by starting pitchers emblazon the path of major league history...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 5 months ago 298 reads 9 comments
The Top Pitchers of the (Steroids?) Era: 1990-2009

These are the pitchers we all know. They have dominated the starting pitching world for the most part of the last 20 years. It does feel like the end of an era, with so many of these pitchers coming to the end of brilliant careers...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 8 months ago 1,507 reads 33 comments
The Nine All-Time Greats Of The Post-Raised Mound Era: 1969: 1990

The Nine All-Time Great Pitchers of the Lowered Mound – Divisional Baseball era: 1969 – 1990 (And the best of the Rest) As I grew up and followed baseball through this era, I was aware of all these pitchers...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 9 months ago 150 reads 12 comments
The Top Ten Pitchers Of The "Golden Years" and The Raised Mound Era: 1946-1968

This period, post - WWII, witnessed great domination by the Yankees, and the advent of integration in baseball. The Tigers, Phillies, Giants, Dodgers, Indians, White Sox, Braves, Cardinals, Pirates ...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 9 months ago 347 reads 12 comments
The Top 10 Pitchers from the Live Ball Era: 1923-1945

As a youth, I read biographies about Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Mel Ott. I knew many of our great position players made their careers during this era: Rogers Hornsby, Jimmy Foxx, Charlie Gehringer...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 10 months ago 160 reads 2 comments
The Modern Deadball Era's Top Ten Pitchers (1901- 1923)

Baseball historians acknowledge 1901 as the beginning of modern baseball. Most recognize that as the start date for comparing stats—pitching and hitting...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 10 months ago 273 reads 6 comments
Why Bert Blyleven Belongs in the Hall of Fame

Bert Blyleven toiled long and hard (4,970 innings worth) to produce a career of pitching excellence. It's time to give him his due, his Day in the Sun, by voting him into the Hall of Fame on this year's 2009 Hall of Fame ballot...

Written by Jonathan Stilwell about 11 months ago 389 reads 3 comments

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Jonathan Stilwell Article Archive

MLB's Five Great Pitching Trios

The Best Pitchers NOT In the Hall of Fame: Who Got Overlooked

The Worst Pitchers in the HOF: Searching for History's Bottom Line

William "Dummy" Hoy; Proving It Could Be Done!

The Greatest Pitching Careers Of The Modern Era

Ranking The Top Pitching Careers Of The Modern Era

Bert Blyleven, Waiting in the Wings: New Perspectives

The Pioneers of Pitching: The Top Pitchers of the Pre-Modern Era

The Ten Greatest Left-Handed Pitchers: A Legacy Worth Knowing

Peak Performance: The Top 20 Pitching Peaks Of The Modern Era

Baseball's Greatest Pitching Seasons: The Prime Nine Revisited

The Top Pitchers of the (Steroids?) Era: 1990-2009

The Nine All-Time Greats Of The Post-Raised Mound Era: 1969: 1990

The Top Ten Pitchers Of The "Golden Years" and The Raised Mound Era: 1946-1968

The Top 10 Pitchers from the Live Ball Era: 1923-1945

The Modern Deadball Era's Top Ten Pitchers (1901- 1923)

Why Bert Blyleven Belongs in the Hall of Fame

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