The Best Pitcher Ever

Dwolfson20 · 03-06-2003, 01:32 AM

Not to raise your expectations or anything, but...

Augustus Steffan
SP - #38 - LHP

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Career Pitching Stats
Year G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K CG SHO Teams 
2015 33 0 10 13 0 3.08 242.1 191 0 83 55 255 4 0 FLA 
2016 35 0 14 14 0 2.66 261.0 179 0 77 64 304 4 2 FLA 
2017 33 0 15 7 0 2.59 233.0 162 0 67 47 255 4 1 FLA 
2018 32 0 12 12 0 3.25 232.1 189 0 84 34 276 3 2 FLA 
2019 35 0 23 4 0 1.52 261.0 169 0 44 29 289 7 2 FLA,NL 
2020 31 0 20 5 0 1.69 224.0 150 0 42 49 253 5 3 LA,NL 
2021 33 0 17 8 0 1.67 242.0 164 0 45 32 248 5 4 LA,NL 
2022 27 0 17 5 0 1.57 200.2 117 0 35 34 255 8 4 LA,NL 
2023 33 0 24 4 0 1.56 254.1 154 0 44 49 285 9 5 LA,NL 
2024 36 0 19 7 0 1.62 266.0 168 0 48 43 297 6 3 LA,NL 
2025 35 0 20 6 0 1.41 274.0 168 0 43 46 301 8 5 LA,NL 
2026 34 34 21 9 0 1.89 262.1 196 56 55 55 241 10 5 LA,NL 
2027 33 33 15 10 0 2.15 226.0 143 71 54 68 200 2 1 CLE,AL 
2028 27 27 9 10 0 3.26 168.1 128 68 61 58 143 4 2 CLE 
2029 10 8 1 5 0 6.34 44.0 48 32 31 29 28 0 0 CLE 
2030 1 1 0 0 0 2.08 4.1 3 1 1 1 5 0 0 CLE 
Total 468 103 237 119 0 2.16 3395.1 2329 228 814 693 3635 79 39

Easier to read HTML page is HERE

ERA- 2.16
IP- 3395.1
BB- 693
K- 3635
W- 237
L- 119

Cy Young Award: 2019-2026 (yes, that's eight straight)

9 All-Star games

Pitched a perfect game

Notes:

Only flaw was failure to win World Series

Had a Koufax-esque run: he's a lefty and he won the Cy Young Award every single year he pitched for LA

Was a victim of OOTP 5's steep development curve/cliff for 35-37 year olds

Never pitched in the minors: drafted at 22 and inserted into Florida's rotation with a 6 rating for avoiding ERs

Needless to say, it will now be called the Augustus Steffan Award

Springtime_for_Hunter · 03-06-2003, 03:45 AM

Essentially Walter Johnson with less years. Nice. Doesn't quite stand up to Cy, though, IMO.

If you started with real players, how does he stand up to Pedro? Pedro's turned into a monster on me.

Dwolfson20 · 03-07-2003, 03:15 AM

Pedro never got that consistently good for me, in regards to ERA. I believe his best was around 1.70, and he only went sub-2 three or four times, and not in a row. Not to mention he always choked come playoff time, kind of like Steffan.

The only thing about my league is that there was a bit of a pitcher's renaissance in the 2020's, when I kind of let the league totals get a bit high, but Steffan blows all the other guys from that era away.

AsTrOFaN · 03-07-2003, 05:12 PM

LA is for pitchers what Coors is for hitters, only to a lesser degree... Looks like he had a pretty nice career though

Dwolfson20 · 03-08-2003, 03:27 PM

Yeah, you have a point about pitching in LA, although he was also awesome in Florida with a horrible team behind him. It's really a shame that he lost his ratings so early.

Rockpile · 03-09-2003, 03:45 PM

I had a guy win 29 games in one year in a modern fictional league. Anyone else seen anything like that?

Springtime_for_Hunter · 03-10-2003, 12:53 AM

I'll post Pedro's stats at some point, maybe at the end of this year. But in 2004 I decided baseball would be moving back toward starters going longer into games. I increased the starters' longevity but kept 5 man rotations and the modern offense. Pedro really responded well, going 31-3 with a 1.23 ERA, striking out 295 batters in 299 innings, and throwing 13 shutouts, topping it off with an LCS no-hitter. About halfway through 2005 (now in a slightly better park for hitters), he's hovering about 1.90, which is the highest his ERA's been in the four years of the league.

Dwolfson20 · 03-10-2003, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rockpile
I had a guy win 29 games in one year in a modern fictional league. Anyone else seen anything like that?

Yeah, I've had a guy win 31 games in a 4-man rotation, which was very impressive. Even better though, I did see someone win 30 games in a 5-man rotation. He only lost twice.

03-06-2003, 03:45 AM	#2
Springtime_for_Hunter All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 846	Essentially Walter Johnson with less years. Nice. Doesn't quite stand up to Cy, though, IMO. If you started with real players, how does he stand up to Pedro? Pedro's turned into a monster on me. __________________ "Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again" Red Smith, New York Herald-Tribune, October 4, 1951

03-08-2003, 03:27 PM	#5
Dwolfson20 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Not St. Louis Posts: 2,872	Yeah, you have a point about pitching in LA, although he was also awesome in Florida with a horrible team behind him. It's really a shame that he lost his ratings so early. __________________

03-10-2003, 12:53 AM	#7
Springtime_for_Hunter All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 846	I'll post Pedro's stats at some point, maybe at the end of this year. But in 2004 I decided baseball would be moving back toward starters going longer into games. I increased the starters' longevity but kept 5 man rotations and the modern offense. Pedro really responded well, going 31-3 with a 1.23 ERA, striking out 295 batters in 299 innings, and throwing 13 shutouts, topping it off with an LCS no-hitter. About halfway through 2005 (now in a slightly better park for hitters), he's hovering about 1.90, which is the highest his ERA's been in the four years of the league. __________________ "Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again" Red Smith, New York Herald-Tribune, October 4, 1951

03-07-2003, 03:15 AM	#3
Dwolfson20 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Not St. Louis Posts: 2,872	Pedro never got that consistently good for me, in regards to ERA. I believe his best was around 1.70, and he only went sub-2 three or four times, and not in a row. Not to mention he always choked come playoff time, kind of like Steffan. The only thing about my league is that there was a bit of a pitcher's renaissance in the 2020's, when I kind of let the league totals get a bit high, but Steffan blows all the other guys from that era away. __________________

03-07-2003, 05:12 PM	#4
AsTrOFaN Major Leagues Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 334	LA is for pitchers what Coors is for hitters, only to a lesser degree... Looks like he had a pretty nice career though

03-09-2003, 03:45 PM	#6
Rockpile All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Colorado Posts: 620	I had a guy win 29 games in one year in a modern fictional league. Anyone else seen anything like that?