You just discovered baseball after cable tv apparently. Rave all you want about Maddux, He is barely top 50 on my list, top ten on yours. Live with it, it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in the long term.I’ll take seven no hitters and over 7000 strikeouts over Maddux any day. Where would Koufax rank on the list without the four no nos?
I’ll correct myself, Ryan only had 5700+ strikeouts
I’ve been following baseball closely for over 50 years. I have seen close to a thousand games in person and thousands more on television. I have studied baseball history. Even if I take Maddux out of my top ten, there are other guys I’d replace him with before Ryan. I have never seen a major rankings list that has done its homework on baseball history—I have never seen one that puts Ryan in the top ten. So its not just me. That’s all I’m saying.