Beurhle reminds me of Randy Jones
Ex Padre pitcher Randy Jones a poised, fast-working control pitcher and a master of the slider and sinker, Jones won the 1976 NL Cy Young Award, going 22-14 for the Padres with league highs in wins, starts, complete games, and innings. That year, he tied Christy Mathewson's NL record of 68 innings without issuing a walk and became the first NL pitcher since WWII to win 20 and not strike out 100. With a 20-12 record and an ERA title (2.24) the previous season, Jones finished second to Tom Seaver in Cy Young voting, making him only the second pitcher to be runner-up one year and win the award the next (Mike Marshall was the other). Crafty is the best way to describe Jones he routinely pitched gmes in less than two hours.
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Ex Padre pitcher Randy Jones a poised, fast-working control pitcher and a master of the slider and sinker, Jones won the 1976 NL Cy Young Award, going 22-14 for the Padres with league highs in wins, starts, complete games, and innings. That year, he tied Christy Mathewson's NL record of 68 innings without issuing a walk and became the first NL pitcher since WWII to win 20 and not strike out 100. With a 20-12 record and an ERA title (2.24) the previous season, Jones finished second to Tom Seaver in Cy Young voting, making him only the second pitcher to be runner-up one year and win the award the next (Mike Marshall was the other). Crafty is the best way to describe Jones he routinely pitched gmes in less than two hours.
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That guy had those 2 magical seasons...then nothing, kind of amazing. Sort of like Steve Stone, 25 wins one year, no other season even resembling that. Jones was a 22 game loser the year before he won 20 too LOL That also has to be a first, to win and lose 20 games in a career.
Jones had a seesaw career and played on some bad teams. He tied for most losses in the NL in 1974, when he went 8-22, and his 1975 performance won him NL Comeback Player of the Year Award. He stopped the AL in the ninth inning of the 1975 all star game and was the starter and winner in the 1976 contest. He ended up with a record of 100 wins and 123 losses.
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5teamparlay said:
I was looking at Wood's stats on www.baseball-reference.com and it mentioned this about him
"The Steady Workhorse and Hoyt Wilhelm Protege. Too bad he ever met Ron LeFlore. "
Anyone know the story behind this or why the reference?
from article: http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/library/columns/rw_040830.htm
On Sunday, May 9, 1976, at Tiger Stadium, Detroit, a sixth-inning drive off the bat of Tigers centerfielder Ron LeFlore struck the left knee of the 34-year-old southpaw. Wood went down in a heap, clutching the knee. The next day, he underwent surgery for a transverse displaced fracture of the left patella (shattered kneecap). Wilbur Wood's season, and for all intents and purpose, career, was over. Ironically, it was a left knee that both started and ended Wood's rise to stardom.
On Sunday, May 9, 1976, at Tiger Stadium, Detroit, a sixth-inning drive off the bat of Tigers centerfielder Ron LeFlore struck the left knee of the 34-year-old southpaw. Wood went down in a heap, clutching the knee. The next day, he underwent surgery for a transverse displaced fracture of the left patella (shattered kneecap). Wilbur Wood's season, and for all intents and purpose, career, was over. Ironically, it was a left knee that both started and ended Wood's rise to stardom.
