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[Lance Uppercut]

This always blew my mind

Greg Maddux

5008.1 IP
177 walks

thats 0.0353 walks per IP, or 1.8 per 9. he once walked 16 in a season, as a high.

Compare that to a contemporary of sorts, pedro martinez...

760 walks in 2,827.1 IP

thats 0.268 walls per IP, or 2.4 per 9. pedros high for walks in a season was 70.

 

[packerzrule]

I thought this was going to be about dogs


pretty incredible stat however

 

[DragonFromTo]

This always blew my mind

Greg Maddux

5008.1 IP
177 walks

thats 0.0353 walks per IP, or 1.8 per 9. he once walked 16 in a season, as a high.

Compare that to a contemporary of sorts, pedro martinez...

760 walks in 2,827.1 IP

thats 0.268 walls per IP, or 2.4 per 9. pedros high for walks in a season was 70.

You're looking in the wrong column, those are intentional walks. Maddux's career total was 999 walks and his season high was 82. Both are still impressive.

You can see this further by calculating that 0.0353 times 9 does not equal 1.8 (his walks per 9 on the page) but 0.32. In addition you can see that the per inning rate that you calculated for Pedro is about 8 times that of Maddux and yet his actual BB/9 is only 1.5 times higher.

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[Lance Uppercut]

You're looking in the wrong column, those are intentional walks. Maddux's career total was 999 walks and his season high was 82. Both are still impressive.

You can see this further by calculating that 0.0353 times 9 does not equal 1.8 (his walks per 9 on the page) but 0.32. In addition you can see that the per inning rate that you calculated for Pedro is about 8 times that of Maddux and yet his actual BB/9 is only 1.5 times higher.

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yeah, duhh...noticed that last night hahahhaha

he played so long i got my colums fucked up

ok, but brett saberhagen then

471 walks in 2,562 IP (right column!)

1.7 BB/9

i remember one season here he had 29 walks in 175 IP. next year he walked only 11 in 119 IP, same number of HR he gave up, which always stuck with me.

shit, with the mets he walked 43 in 263 IP lol

 

[HammerDown]

I remember when he was with the Padres the announcers telling stories of his mindblowing control.

 

[DragonFromTo]

Bob Tewksbury wasn't quite in the same class as Saberhagen as a pitcher (and was of course even further from Maddux) but he is another guy who was super stingy with free passes. Radke is another.

 

[navamind]

Led the NL in BB/9 nine times. Top 10 seventeen times.

Also finished in the top 10 in IP seventeen times. Led the NL five years in a row from 1991-95.

 

[broncosmitty]

Mark Grace once noticed Greg had a raging boner on the mound just prior to the first pitch.