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OT: Best Big Three pitchers on one club

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Off the top of my head
Early Wynn, Bob Lemon, Mike Garcia-- early 50's Indians
Maddox, Glavine, Smoltz-- Braves
Palmer, McNally, Cuellar--Orioles

2nd tier
Reynolds, Rashi, Lopat--late 40's early 50's Yankees
 
I kind of went by number of years pitching together & W-L records as I recall them.
mdk01 said:
Said as a Yankee fan

1969 Mets

Seaver
Koosman
Gentry
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Don't think Gentry fits the bill.
hinson32 said:
Koufax, Drysdale, Podres- early to mod 60's Dodgers.
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Almost included them, but though I really liked Podres didn't think he quite had the numbers.
 
rudad02 said:
I kind of went by number of years pitching together & W-L records as I recall them.

Don't think Gentry fits the bill.

Almost included them, but though I really liked Podres didn't think he quite had the numbers.
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Well if you are going multi-year what about #4, Nolan Ryan?
 
If you are going by one season, there's about 5 LA Dodger seasons in the past 10 years you could use. 2022 was ridiculous with Anderson, Urias, Gonselin, and Walker.
 
rudad02 said:
Off the top of my head
Early Wynn, Bob Lemon, Mike Garcia-- early 50's Indians
Maddox, Glavine, Smoltz-- Braves
Palmer, McNally, Cuellar--Orioles

2nd tier
Reynolds, Rashi, Lopat--late 40's early 50's Yankees
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Indians won well over 100 games in 1954 to take AL title. Also had Bob Feller and Hal Newhouser and a couple of good relievers - Mossi and Narleski
 
hoquat63 said:
Indians won well over 100 games in 1954 to take AL title. Also had Bob Feller and Hal Newhouser and a couple of good relievers - Mossi and Narleski
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Yes they did, 111 to be exact. Glad to see someone besides me remembers all those Indian chuckers.
 
hoquat63 said:
First year I collected baseball cards. Was a Giants fan so WS win over the Tribe was special
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I'm biased.
The NY Giants were my favorite team until they moved, then like the Bums they left with have been on my permanent s#!t list.
(disclosure : older brother was a Dodger fan and that's probably why I became a Giant fan)
So my top 3 are from the 1954 Giants
Johnny Antonelli, Ruben Gomez and Sal "the Barber" Maglie
 
rudad02 said:
Going by multiple seasons together.
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Lincecum, Cain, Bumgarner are an oddity as far as big threes go because they pitched together for multiple seasons and won a few rings, but they weren’t all great at the same time.

Zito, Hudson, Mulder had a few nice seasons together, but didn’t win anything.
 
MADHAT1 said:
I'm biased.
The NY Giants were my favorite team until they moved, then like the Bums they left with have been on my permanent s#!t list.
(disclosure : older brother was a Dodger fan and that's probably why I became a Giant fan)
So my top 3 are from the 1954 Giants
Johnny Antonelli, Ruben Gomez and Sal "the Barber" Maglie
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Don’t forget Jim Hearn
 
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MADHAT1 said:
I'm biased.
The NY Giants were my favorite team until they moved, then like the Bums they left with have been on my permanent s#!t list.
(disclosure : older brother was a Dodger fan and that's probably why I became a Giant fan)
So my top 3 are from the 1954 Giants
Johnny Antonelli, Ruben Gomez and Sal "the Barber" Maglie
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Was going to post about that great Giant staff. In addition to Antonelli, Gomez & the great Sal "the Barber" Maglie they had Larry Jansen & "Jumbo" Jim Hearn--not to mention the unhittable knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm out of the pen.

In the late 50's I played against Al Corwin who came up with the Giants during the '51 season & went 6-0 earning their rookie of the year honors. He pitched for the Kingston Braves in the very heavy NY NJ league. Today would probably be equivalent to a Triple a league--full of former minor & some big leaguers at a time when the minors went from D ball to Triple A & there were only 8 teams in each of the American & National leagues. So tough to make it all the way up. Tons of guys spent years in the minors finally gave it up while still in their 20's & early 30's & continued to play semi-pro ball. NY NJ league was the best of several that I played in.

PS-lived in Brooklyn in the 40's & 50's. Huge Dodger fan.
 
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Thinking it over, believe Spahn, Burdette & Bob Buhl of the late '50s Milwaukie Braves could be considered a top Big Three.
 
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Four twenty game winners on the 71 Orioles ( yes I am an Orioles fan )is a record that will never be broken …( maybe tied ). The top 3 of Palmer,McNally and Cueller played a number of years together
 
1930’s Giants had Hubbell, Schumacher and Fitzsimmons. In 1933 Hubbell pitched in 45 games.
 
rudad02 said:
I kind of went by number of years pitching together & W-L records as I recall them.

Don't think Gentry fits the bill.

Almost included them, but though I really liked Podres didn't think he quite had the numbers.
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Agree somewhat on Podres. However, Koufax was so dominant.
 
Would add Mulder, Hudson, and Zito and Verlander, Gerit Cole, and Greinke.
 
Probably doesn't make the list but these guys had the following ERAs for the 1973 Mets.
- Seaver 2.08 ERA - 290 innings pitched!
- Stone 2.80 ERA - 148 innings
- Koosman 2.94 ERA - 263 innings
- Matlack 3.20 ERA - 242 innings
- Parker 3.35 - 97 innings
- Sadecki 3.39 - 116 inning

That is some consistent starting pitching. They only had an 82-80 record owing to an inept offense but this staff got them to within one win of a World Championship.
 
1986 Gooden, Darling and Fernandez were pretty good.. 2nd tier though in OP context. (oops, just saw someone got them into thread earlier today)

Hard to compare eras.. ERAs were much better back in the day... at least in the National League.
 
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