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Old 09-11-2012, 04:00 PM   #3
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Inaugural Class of Pitchers, 1936 : Ferguson and Dolan

For this league I am using recalc based on 5 years. I have never used this length of a recalc setting before, but I have liked what I have seen from recalc in the past runs.

Charlie J Ferguson seems to be a favorite of the sim. He has been great every time he has come up in my Random Leagues.

In this one, he was immortally dominant. From 1903 to 1927 he won 537 games while losing 341...that's a .612 win% in 950 G (all starts). Along with having the most career wins, he is also the career leader in strikeouts with 4596. He was the Rookie of the Year, won two GGs, and 6 CYA.

OOTP (and RL) Black and Gray Ink : 191 (6) and 466 (99)

OOTP (and RL) HoFM and HoFS : 221 (49) and 87 (27)


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Since the same pitcher had the most wins and strikeouts I had one more slot to fill by a pitcher.

Cozy P Dolan was drafted as a 31 year-old in the inaugural draft of the league. I did not clear the ML service times from the inaugural class and allowed consideration for the Hall for players if their listed service time was at least 10 years with the service time they brought with them.

Dolan fit this category. He also split his career between pitching and hitting. Pitching from 1880-1885 he won 2 CY Young Awards and was an all star 3 times. In 1886 he was an All-Star as a hitter. Between 1880 and 1885 he pitched 1282 innings while compiling a 92-50 record. But I put him in because he was absolutely dominant.

Consider that he retired as the leader in career ERA (1.71), winning % (.648), WHIP (1.02), opp OBP (.242) and opp OPS (.251). I am confident that 4 of these records will never be broken due to era factoring. If he is going to be immortal in the record books he is worthy of consideration to be immortalized in the Hall.

All of his ink came from pitching. Black 44, Gray 110, HoF Monitor 111.5, Hof Standards 37.
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