Only 21, Simpson had won 11 of his 12 decisions entering July with a 2.38 ERA.

Great article. He won only 10 games twice more in a season after his 14 victory debut season in 1976. Merritt hurt his arm during his 20 win season with the Reds. (via John VanderHaagen). The Cincinnati Reds, with just the 11th-best ERA-in baseball that year out of 24 teams, won 102 games in the regular season and swept their way through the playoffs. Yes, you read that right. Both the Pirates and Reds won… Read more ». There was; the Rule 5 draft has been around for decades. He went on to win 196 games in a 17-year career.) Exactly seven of them had an ERA- below the league median: Four of those occurred in the last 10 years.

Nolan only walked 29 in 210+ innings. You need to get some books regarding great teams, and you STILL can’t really “get it”. Hardly overrated. The Reds certainly did. The Big Red Machine is a nickname for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team that dominated the National League from 1970 to 1979 and is widely recognized as being among the best in baseball history. He hurt his arm sometime during 1971 (age 27) and had a fast decline for the Reds.

Even with losing these starting pitchers, Reds General Manager Bob Howsam remained active keeping the Big Red Machine in overdrive. Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2020 3:34 AM ET, Park Factors

The 1913 A’s weren’t like that. San Francisco Giants 2d baseman Joe Morgan (eight) catches the ball as Montreal Expos’ Tim Raines steals 2d all the way through a recreation in San Francisco on April 27, 1982.

Seriously? The Reds staff average of 6.27 innings per start was the seventh-lowest in baseball.” Hilarious because Sparky Anderson gets a nickname out of it, yet in the modern game 5.9 to 6.1 innings per game is all starting pitchers average across both leagues… Read more ». The Big Red Machine didn’t really need to throw the ball very well because of their offense.

As a 19 year old rookie, Nolan went 14-8 with a 2.58 ERA, pitching 226+ innings and striking out 206.

Alcala only won three more games in the big leagues after his first big league season. David Ok. Li is a breaking information reporter for NBC Information. Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted Morgan passed away at his home Danville, California, a suburb of San Francisco, on … It might be harder for such an unbalanced team to march through the playoffs nowadays, when there are three rounds plus the Wild Card game. The 21-year-old Byron Houck was even more wretched than that, as his 176 innings of a 146 ERA- showed. Or a garbage man. However, their championship teams do tend to be better than 1976.

And it wasn’t close. Your email address will not be published. Merv Rettenmund from the right-side did a .609 OBP as a PH and Terry Crowley from the left-side rolled a .692 OBP.

I wonder how good we could have been if we had kept some of these successful major league pitchers that won hundreds of games for teams other than the Big Red Machine. Of the 111 teams that have won the World Series, 34 won at least 100 games during the regular season. To be fair, the Reds pitching staff wasn’t quite wretched; it was just above the median, 11th out of 24, rather than just below it.

The starters certainly weren’t all that effective, and thanks to manager Sparky Anderson, who was known as “Captain Hook” for his quick calls to the bullpen, they didn’t stay in the game all that long. The Reds displayed their dominance most directly by making quick work of their opponents in October, dispatching the 101-win Phillies in three straight games and the 97-win Yankees in four, one of only two World Series sweeps the Yankees have ever suffered. Collins remains the best second baseman in American League history, just as Joe Morgan is probably the best second baseman since World War II.

At age 20, he went 9-4 with a 2.40 ERA and hurt his arm…because he had been pitched too much too early.

The Reds won the first game behind Gullett, who went eight innings, allowing just a first-inning run, while his offense scored six.

Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman who became the sparkplug of the 'Big Red Machine' and the prototype for baseball's artificial turf era, has died at 77 after battling a nerve condition. The pitchers were dead on average, posting an ERA+ of 100, tying for sixth in the league (Phillies ERA+ was 115). They just couldn’t pitch. Ross Grimsley won 37 games for the Reds in 1972-74, but was dealt to the Orioles for reserve outfielder Merv Rettenmund and reserve infielder Junior Kennedy because he was too much of a free spirit.

And most of the rest of the staff was far worse, including 20-year old Bullet Joe Bush, who threw 200 innings with a frightful ERA- of 135. I enjoyed this article and don’t mean to nitpick. Two additional players appeared in a handful of games as September call-ups.

Really…seriously?? That’s why we remember nearly every one of their starting players — except for their starting pitchers. He threw a small number of games, then his shoulder went, if I recall, and his career was over (if memory serves). and play-by-play data provided by Baseball Info Solutions. “Prime” is a fluid term, but both versions of WAR give Baker at least a 4-WAR edge for best 3-year span and best 6-year span.

Maloney tore up his Achilles heel in April of 1970, effectively finishing his career. Anyway – is it really fair to compare their pitching staff to their offense, which is considered to be one of the best of all time? It’s not like the rest were complete duffers.

I watched them destroy my Yankees in ’76, like a nightmare that never ended. In the bottom of the seventh, the Reds scored four runs, because that’s what they did.

From 1909 to 1915, he tallied 61.4 WAR, an average of 8.8 per year. McGlothlin earned a spot in the Angels rotation at age 23 in 1967. Interestingly, if the Big Red Machine refers only to hitting, then the time frame should start in 1968. By what measure?


In early May of 1975, Sparky… Read more », I got Gullett!

When I see Rawly Eastwick I always think of that book too – here’s an excerpt that made him really memorable: “Rawly Eastwick is a great explorer in the bullpen. 2) Don Gullett may be remembered as a pitching coach by younger readers, but older fans remember him as the youngest pitcher to win 100 games, and a cautionary tale of signing free agent pitchers (along w Wayne garland) to big long term contracts. They won two WS but easily could have won in 1970 (when their rotation was racked by injuries by WS time) and 1972, when they lost in 7 games to a team that won 3 straight WS.… Read more ». (Here’s the answer to that sort-of trivia question.

The workhorse was 24-year-old Boardwalk Brown, who led the team in starts and pitched 235.1 innings with an indifferent ERA- of 104. He hurt his arm and won only three more games that year, and 22 more in his next five big league seasons. He also won the 1914 MVP award and finished in the top three in 1911, 1913, 1923 and 1924. They rate about even for best 10-year span, but that would be a pretty broad definition of prime.

They usually had tough divisional competition from the Dodgers (in fact, in 1974, the Reds had one of their best teams of the era and lost the division to the Dodgers), and in one of their more impressive performances prevailed in 1979’s division race over the Astros despite an aging lineup.

There were some other smaller deals and then there were some bigger ones, too.

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To say they were not a dynasty is rather narrow minded.

Jim Maloney was expected to have another big season. He hurt himself again in 1977, but could not return. Of the World Series champions with the worst regular-season winning percentages, five of the seven worst had team ERAs below the major league median: the 83-win 2006 Cardinals, the 85-win 1987 Twins, the 88-win 2014 Giants, the 90-win 2011 Cardinals and the 91-win 2003 Marlins. He did not win a game as a starter in 1971 – his only win came in relief, finishing the season 1-11.

The pitchers were dead on average, posting an ERA+ of 100, tying for sixth in the league (Phillies ERA+ was 115). Copyright RedlegNation.com. Website admin will know that you reported it. The Phillies, just four years away from the first championship in franchise history, were probably a better team than those Yankees, who were still a year away from acquiring Reggie Jackson and winning the 1977 and 1978 championships. He was 77.

In the year when Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Bobby Tolan, and Bernie Carbo all had their career offensive years, their pitching was actually better than their offense. He never won another game – he was 30 years old. In fact, it could have been a whole lot better than what we had. Lefty reliever Steve Mingori was traded to the Cleveland Indians before the 1970 season for five at bats worth of use from reserve outfielder Jay Ward. The Reds’ offense had an OPS+ of 108, which was five points better than the second place Phillies’ 103. Milwaukee…no. The 1982 Brewers won 1 pennant, and nothing after or before. I’d guess that Knight and Kennedy weren’t eligible for it because the Reds had protected them by putting them on the 40-man roster, just as they would need to do today.

Joe Morgan, the diminutive powerhouse who led Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" run of the mid-1970s, has died, a family spokesman told The Associated Press.
Joe Morgan was just mind-blowing to watch, arrogant on the basepaths, disruptive, and smart as hell. They finished with 85 wins, the second-lowest win total by a World Series-winning team, and the lowest until the 83-win Cardinals of 2006 managed to win it all. Sure, compared to the '27 Yankees, the Reds’ raw numbers pale in comparison. RedlegNation.com is an independent news source and is not affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds, Major League Baseball, any of the Cincinnati Reds minor league affiliates or Minor League Baseball. And Borbon threw 121 innings in 69 games, with a 95 ERA-. (He had 512 sac bunts, 120 more than the player in second place, Jake Daubert.). The Reds’ ERA+ was 107, which didn’t lead the league – but was tied for third with the Cardinals behind the 117 posted by the Dodgers and Pirates. Here is a couple: “The starters certainly weren’t all that effective, and thanks to manager Sparky Anderson, who was known as “Captain Hook” for his quick calls to the bullpen, they didn’t stay in the game all that long. great pitching.

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