Why is Glavine's Top Card Only a 95

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@Jeviduty said in Why is Glavine's Top Card Only a 96:

Felix in his 20s > Glavine in his 20s

You can not base anything from 90s pitchers and modern day pitchers stats.

The pitchers in the mid 90s to the early 2000s are the best pitchers of all time because of the steroid era. Those that dominated then would absolutely obliterate competition today.

Guys like DeGrom, Scherzer, Kershaw would do just as good in the 90s. But, take Maddux, Glavine, Kevin Brown, hell even Mike Mussina, and they would put up Cy Young numbers year in and year out today. Forget about Pedro today, he may get to 400 strikeouts in a season if he pitched today.

This is why we have ERA+

And all those pitchers had seasons, multiple, including many I did not mention in the 90s (Randy Johnson, for example) in which they led their league in ERA+ and have some of the highest career ERA+ of all time.

Yeah, and? The best pitchers will have high ERA+. Nobody thinks Randy Johnson was bad lmao.

Just to bring it back to Felix Hernandez, his 2010 season was better in terms of ERA+ than any season Glavine had. His 2009 season was as well. They were better than any of Mussina’s seasons too. Kevin Brown had one outstanding season with 215.

Did the 90’s have some great pitchers? Yes of course. But just being good in the 90’s doesn’t mean they would be any better today.

I’m pretty sure we’re agreeing with each other and it’s getting lost through text