JDPNYY's Question of the day - Tuesday 10/20/09

[JDPNYY]

Tuesday 10/20/09 - JDPNYY's Question of the Day





Who are the best New York Yankee Starting Pitchers of all time?

Please choose 5, ranking them 1-5

[Bozidar]

1) Whitey Ford
2) Lefty Gomez
3) Mike Mussina
4) Ron Guidry
5) Red Ruffing

[jlw1980]

Vernon Louis Gomez
Edward Charles Ford
William Roger Clemens
Charles Herbert Ruffing
Ronald Ames Guidry

[NYDCYankee]

Vernon Louis Gomez
Edward Charles Ford
William Roger Clemens
Charles Herbert Ruffing
Ronald Ames Guidry

I agree with this list.

[TinoFan84]

I'm going with:

1. Whitey Ford
2. Red Ruffing
3. Lefty Gomez
4. Jack Chesbro
5. Andy Pettitte

(Pettitte makes it basically because of number of wins)

[xxltaco]

allie reynolds - 2 no hitters
don larsen - WS no hitter
david cone - no hitter
david wells - no hitter
dwight gooden - no hitter

[Maynerd]

1. Whitey Ford
2. Red Ruffing
3. Lefty Gomez
4. Ron Guidry
5. Mel Stottlemyer

[Bozidar]

allie reynolds - 2 no hitters
don larsen - WS no hitter
david cone - no hitter
david wells - no hitter
dwight gooden - no hitter

Abbot threw a no hitter with no hand.. and he doesn't get onto your list?

[JL25and3]

I'm going with:

1. Whitey Ford
2. Red Ruffing
3. Lefty Gomez
4. Jack Chesbro
5. Andy Pettitte

(Pettitte makes it basically because of number of wins)

I don't know about Chesbro. I'll have to ask muggs how good he really was.

[penguin4]

allie reynolds - 2 no hitters
don larsen - WS no hitter
david cone - no hitter
david wells - no hitter
dwight gooden - no hitter

If we're going by Yanks who threw no-hitters, Gooden and Larsen over Rags? Seriously?

Can't really rank, but I suppose it would be some permutation of

Whitey Ford
Lefty Gomez
Waite Hoyt
Herb Pennock
Red Ruffing

Five guys, all HOFers who spent a significant part of their career (if not all of it) in Pinstripes. The guys you've never seen pitch always seem to be better, somehow.

I kinda scratch my head how Chesbro made the Hall, though. He didn't win 200 games, and his ERA of 2.68 seems only above average for the Deadball Era, not phenomenal. Pretty sure that 41-win season was somewhat of a fluke.

[JDPNYY]

If we're going by Yanks who threw no-hitters, Gooden and Larsen over Rags? Seriously?

Can't really rank, but I suppose it would be some permutation of

Whitey Ford
Lefty Gomez
Waite Hoyt
Herb Pennock
Red Ruffing

Five guys, all HOFers who spent a significant part of their career (if not all of it) in Pinstripes. The guys you've never seen pitch always seem to be better, somehow.

I kinda scratch my head how Chesbro made the Hall, though. He didn't win 200 games, and his ERA of 2.68 seems only above average for the Deadball Era, not phenomenal. Pretty sure that 41-win season was somewhat of a fluke.

Great, not ranked. More flies in the ointment.

[JL25and3]

1. Ford
2. Rufffing
3. Gomez
4. Guidry
5. Pettitte

And a nod to Spud Chandler

[fredgmuggs]

1. Whitey Ford
2. Red Ruffing
3. Lefty Gomez
4. Ron Guidry
5. Mel Stottlemyer

That sounds good to me. I'll go with your picks Maynerd

[JDPNYY]

I'll have my answer at the customary time, but I will say now that with every Yankee Pitcher of all time available to me, there's only one guy I'd put on the mound in a Game 7 -

Whitey Ford.

[TinoFan84]

I don't know about Chesbro. I'll have to ask muggs how good he really was.

I'm giving him lots of credit for 1904 when he started 51 games, completed 48 of them and got 41 wins. But I can see where not everyone would agree with me

[MunsonNY15]

1. Whitey Ford
2. Ron Guidry
3. Catfish Hunter
4. Allie Reynolds
5. Red Ruffing

Heidi

[JDPNYY]

Banner day here today.

Thanks a lot Girardi.

[RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees]

I'm giving him lots of credit for 1904 when he started 51 games, completed 48 of them and got 41 wins. But I can see where not everyone would agree with me

He also lost the the pennant to Boston on the last day of the season by throwing a wild pitch.

Ok, my list:

1) Ford

(long drop off)


2) Gomez
3) Ruffing
4) Reynolds
5) Guidry

[penguin4]

Great, not ranked. More flies in the ointment.

OK, rank them as such.

1. Ford
2. Gomez
3. Hoyt
4. Pennock
5. Ruffing

[JDPNYY]

OK, rank them as such.

1. Ford
2. Gomez
3. Hoyt
4. Pennock
5. Ruffing

Much obliged.

[Bozidar]

Banner day here today.

Thanks a lot Girardi.

I think the primary problem is that there haven't been a huge amount of great Yankee pitchers to choose from. Even if you include Clemens as a probabl HOFer, you're only looking at 7 guys - the vast majority of whom played over 50 years ago. Folks just didn't see them pitch, and when you hear about the days of 'ole, you hear about.. Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra...

IMO, Whitey Ford was the best pitcher this franchise has ever seen based on stats. But I couldn't tell you a thing about the man or his career other than the fact that the guy from the breakfast club played him in *61. I'm not a baseball historian, and most of the old timers i focused on, and i think most people do, are the hitters.

[JDPNYY]

My answer:

1) Ford
2) Gomez
3) Ruffing
4) Guidry
5) Reynolds

This concludes today's Question.