obsessivegiantscompulsive: Cain and Lincecum: A Throwback to Drysdale and Koufax?

Dodgers as Giants??...Chuck just Churned!

Cain as we all know is high K, high BB. But he strongly aspires to become a pitcher and, from what I’ve heard, he is about as competitive in nature as Drysdale, where the other team is the enemy and you treat them that way.

Koufax’s stats is more like Cain and Lincecum’s. They all struck out a lot as well as walked a lot when they were young and starting out. But then something clicked for Koufax and suddenly, not only was he still striking out a lot, 9-10 K/9, but he was also walking a lot less, from the 5’s to 3.38 in 1961, then 2.78 in 1962, then basically around 2.0 for the next 4 seasons, resulting in K/BB ratios of 4-5 (where 2.0 is the goal for successful pitchers and 2.4 for the more elite pitchers). And, of course, Sandy had all those no-hitters too - Cain had all those one-hit games last season and Lincecum keeps H/9 down low as well thus far in the minors so he could possibly to a threat to no-hit teams as well when he makes the majors.