His ERA over that span was 0.50. He posted a 1.53 ERA in 35 starts -- including 16 complete games. Johnson posted a 2.49 ERA and struck out 372 batters (13.4 strikeouts per nine innings). To compile a list of the best Major League Baseball teams of all time, there’s more than a century of data to mine and some parameters to set. Like all lists at The Baseball Scholar, this […], Here are my top 5 Boston Red Sox second basemen of all-time. Covering the impact of coronavirus on the sports world. 11: Carl Yastrzemski, 1967 The '27 Yankees (or the '39 Yankees, or the '98 Yankees, or ... ). Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I'm going with 1943 AL MVP Spud Chandler. Margins were slim, teams came and went and players hopped around in order to make what money they could, especially as the Great Depression set in. They began as a group of steel men just outside Pittsburgh. section: | slug: new-york-yankees-all-time-team-ruth-gehrig-mantle-jeter-rivera-and-even-a-rod | sport: baseball | route: article_single.us | Manny Randhawa is a reporter for MLB.com based in Denver. Trout posted a 10.5 WAR, slashing .315/.441/.550 with 29 home runs and 30 steals.

Like all lists at The Baseball Scholar, this is […], Here are my top 5 Boston Red Sox third basemen of all-time. OK, so here's the deal. An all-black team before integration, they played far away from the bright lights of the Majors. From starting pitchers with ERAs below 2.00 to hitters slugging over .700, here are the best single-season performances of all time. No.

Baseball Hall of … Guidry was absolutely dominant, posting a 1.74 ERA in 35 starts for the Yankees to win the AL Cy Young Award and finish as the runner-up in AL MVP voting. He posted a career-high 198 OPS+, while slugging 49 homers and helping lead Baltimore to a World Series title.No. That leaves four bench players. 25: Vida Blue, 1971 Williams and Foster in the rotation; Gibson, Charleston and Wilson in the lineup -- that's five Baseball Hall of Famers on one team, six if you count Posey -- more than the '70 Orioles, more than the '42 Cardinals, more than the Big Red Machine, as many as the '48 Indians, just one shy of the '27 Yankees. Narrowing down the top 25 MLB teams of all-time is mainly made up World Series winners, but a few teams put together strong seasons and fell short. fun twist, I'm making a Baseball Stars team for each. For most franchises a player had to have at […], Here are my top 5 Arizona Diamondbacks first basemen of all-time. 18: Mark McGwire, 1998 He also set an MLB record by pitching 208 1/3 relief innings.No. Best Pitching Seasons Become a Stathead. Fresh off an NL Rookie of the Year campaign, Gooden won the NL Cy Young Award with a spectacular season for the Mets. What the Best Ever Book was for batters and pitchers, Fields of Gold, Baseball's Best Glove Work does for the men with gold gloves. To say the list is impressive is an understatement. Carlton won the first of four NL Cy Young Awards with a brilliant campaign, as he pitched 346 1/3 innings and posted a 1.97 ERA. 15: Frank Robinson, 1966 Gibson's 1.12 ERA over 34 starts is the lowest single-season ERA since Dutch Leonard's 0.96 in '14. The '75 Reds. At 22, Blue became the youngest pitcher to win an AL Cy Young Award, as he started 39 games and posted a 1.82 ERA in 312 innings for the A's. Onto the lineup. Throwback jerseys, really, are more than simple tributes to a particular team or player. Hall of Fame Ranks

To that impressive core, Posey made two additions prior to the '31 season: Willie Foster, quite possibly the best left-handed pitcher in Negro League history, and Jud "Boojum" Wilson, quite possibly the best third baseman in Negro League history. Because of this, we have scoured through over 100 years of baseball uniforms to put together what we believe is the ultimate list of the 5 best baseball jerseys of all time. Like all lists at The Baseball Scholar, this is […], Updated 10/10/2020 Major League Baseball as we know it, that is two leagues American and National, playing by the same […], Updated 02/22/2020 Major League Baseball as we know it, that is two leagues American and National, playing by the same […], For a lot of people where we are from is a point of pride. No. 31: Tony Gwynn, 1987 13: Mickey Mantle, 1956 Aaron led the Milwaukee Braves to a World Series title -- slashing .322/.378/.600 with 44 home runs during the regular season, before hitting .393 with three homers in the Fall Classic against the Yankees. 34: Robin Yount, 1982, Yount won the first of two career AL MVP Awards after slashing .331/.379/.578 with 29 home runs for the pennant-winning Brewers.

7: Orel Hershiser, 1988 Posey played this game as well as anyone: At one point or another during his more than 20 years as owner and manager, the Grays rostered 11 of the 31 non-Posey Negro League players currently in Cooperstown. No. Two of them only really played center field, so one is getting moved to left for this hypothetical. 1871-2019 (Regular Season).

Morgan was an integral part of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine that won back-to-back World Series titles in '75 and '76. All due respect to Phil Rizzuto, but Derek Jeter is the easy call here. We're going to have a 30-day series creating an all-time team for each MLB club. But MLB Network did just that, revealing its top 40 seasons on Sunday night. In the midst of a five-season stretch that is among the greatest ever put together by a starting pitcher, Koufax posted a 2.04 ERA in 43 games (41 starts) -- including 27 complete games and eight shutouts. To be eligible a player had to have at […], Here are my top 5 Arizona Diamondbacks catchers of all-time. Bill Dickey and Thurman Munson would be the pick on many teams. All Rights Reserved. They became something much more because of Cumberland Posey. National Association of Base Ball Players, List of worst Major League Baseball season records, List of Major League Baseball 100 win seasons, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_best_Major_League_Baseball_season_win-loss_records&oldid=983512568, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 October 2020, at 17:27. The Grays already had Smokey Joe Williams, an imposing Texan with a fastball that made him one of the most feared pitchers in the Negro Leagues -- and who once struck out 27 hitters in 12 one-hit innings to earn the Grays a win over the Kansas City Monarchs. While the 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers finished with a winning percentage of .717, they did so with the benefit of playing a shortened 60-game season. 2: Bob Gibson, 1968 He won the NL Cy Young Award and also went on to be named MVP of the NL Championship Series and World Series.No. To be eligible a pitcher had to have at […], Here are my top 5 Arizona Diamondbacks second basemen of all-time. (No less than Ty Cobb swore that, if Williams had pitched in the Majors in his prime, he would have won 30 games.). The '01 Mariners. The Yankees are obviously stellar and it's really tough to leave off so many greats. Gwynn, who was most known for his incredible eye at the plate, hit .370. In the list below (minimum 15 games played), six teams finished with better overall winning percentages than the 1906 Cubs, three being in the early years of the National league, and the other three in leagues whose status as "major" is questionable: two in the National Association, whose status as a major league has long been disputed, and the other in the Union Association, which is conventionally listed as a major league, but this has been questioned due to the league's overall lack of playing talent and poor organizational structure. 6-keys: media/spln/mlb/reg/free/stories, at