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Hall of Merit— A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best
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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: October 09, 2006 at 07:44 PM (#2204962)If his career (which was very good) had been as good as his name, he'd be an easy HoMer.
Lyle claimed that the very possibility had never ever ocurred to him before...
Does this help Sparky's cause?
Does this help Sparky's cause?
For the Egg Tossing and Blindfolded Wheelbarrow Halls of Fame? Certainly!
;-)
Yes, it will move him to number 16 on my ballot in perpetuity.
At Old Timers Day in the late 1980s or mid 1990s, Sparky threw a pitch from behind and up over his back that was called a strike.
He threw it by using his usual motion but not releasing the ball. Instead he followed through, ball still in hand, and released it as his arm followed through from underneath and behind his right armpit. It was a blooper pitch that landed in the zone and totally befuddled whoever was at the dish.
I'll bite. What's the quote?
After Lyle's departure from the Yankees, Graig Nettles quipped that he gone from Cy Young to Sayonara. :-)
His 1977 is pretty overrated, horrible Cy Young choice, he was 4.5 runs below average on inherited runners, only leveraged 1.30. Nice year, but Tug McGraw was just as valuable that year, Rollie Fingers a lot more valuable, Jim Kern was almost as good, Sutter was a ton more valuable, Gossage had the second best relief season I've found so far, Ron Reed was better, Gary Lavelle a lot better, Gene Garber nearly as good, Bill Campbell a lot better too.
1977 was a heckuva year for relief aces, and Lyle was nothing special at all. 1972 was his best season, pretty handily.
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