It may have taken us awhile to get to this, and we're not sure whether everybody's been hankering for it or not, but yes, this year, Stat Geek Baseball, the Best Ever Book 2012, includes it's new chapter on the Best Hitting, Pitching, and Overall Teams in baseball history, all powered by the PEVA rating system from baseballevaluation.com.
And while we won't get into all of the lists here in a blog post, we're going to talk about one specific item, one team that showed up very high on one of those lists. The pitching staff of the Philadelphia Phillies, which came in at #8 all-time.
A lot of talk got bandied about during the preseason of 2011 and the season of 2011, too, that what fans of baseball and the Phillies were witnessing was one of the best staffs in baseball history. Some of that luster got taken off in the postseason when talk of not winning a round predominated, but that doesn't change the fact that it was true.
Now they weren't the best of the best. But when you're comparing staffs over the course of 1871-2011, that's a whole lot of mound presence to beat. The starting staff of Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Roy Oswalt, and Vance Worley (who subbed for the intended and injured Joe Blanton) through most of the year,
And who beat them out. Well, we won't give away too much of the drama, but will say that the Atlanta Braves fans of the 1990's will be pleased (although they aren't at the top), as well as a couple really old staffs, including one of the Cubs.
But where's the staff of the last 60's and early 70's Orioles. It's in the Top 50 somewhere, as well as a variety of teams from all generations.
Check out Stat Geek Baseball, the Best Ever Book 2012, for updated lists of not only the best teams, but the best seasons, careers, postseasons, etc. of All-Time, plus every team in history. It's now for sale at all major online bookstores in paperback, and you can buy the ebook (pdf) from baseballevaluation.com for only $5.95.
http://baseballevaluation.com/besteverbook.html
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