Johnson's delivery always amazes me. You can see why hitters had so much trouble picking the ball up, but it's much harder to see how he managed to be the hardest-throwing pitcher in the game *and* throw nearly 6,000 innings.https://twitter.com/BSmile/status/1153292515338063872 …
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Measured by Wins Above Replacement, the 17 best players over their best 10-year stretches. Grover Cleveland Alexander makes the list despite missing nearly all of 1918 fighting in World War I. Stan Musial & Ted Williams just miss due to World War II.pic.twitter.com/gyZIAPemen
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Measured by Wins Above Replacement, the 19 best players over their best 10-season stretches, letting Williams, Musial & Alexander use a wider window to offset wartime absences. (I give Alexander his 0.4 WAR from 3 appearances in 1918; it doesn't change his rank on the list).pic.twitter.com/Zf22t5vES1
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If you want to know how much money some of those guys would make today for that kind of performance, consider that Pujols & A-Rod are the *last* two names on the chart. Instead, Kid Nichols was working as an elevator operator when he was 79.
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Think Trout might be able to sneak onto this chart by end of next season.
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He should make it fairly easily, if healthy; projected from where he is now, he'd end up between Hornsby & Gehrig.
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