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🚨NEW EP: HOF TIERS🚨 Jim helps kickoff the new NFL season with a HOF-focused 2026 preview.
We cover four HOF tiers for active players:
🧠 No-Brainers
🏈 Nearly There
👷♂️ Some Work To Do
🍼 Too Young, But Tons Of Potential
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Folks, I'm into this!!!
Quality Start (QS) is 6+ IP with 3 ER or less
Dominant Start (DS) is 7+ IP with 2 ER or less
Let's be honest, the difference between a QS and a DS is pretty huge over the course of a season; you save your bullpen AND put your team in a better position.
I like that, but 60 is too low.
Dominant Start indicating a pitcher reached a game score of 75+ seems right.
Cam Schlittler leads the MLB with 8 such starts.
Baseball Reference already has average Game Score, which is pretty good. You could also use Stathead to search most games over 60 game score, or something like that.
bbref.com/pi/shareit/FqnKp
Thoughts on making Dominant Starts (DS) a pitching stat we track?
I am over 4.50 ERA over 6 innings.
Sandy Alcantara and Yoshinobu Yamamoto lead the MLB in Quality starts with 21.
AL Cy Young frontrunner Cam Schlittler has 19 while NL Cy Young frontrunner Jacob Misiorowski has 18.
Do Quality Starts…matter at all?
One of my dreams, like many others, was to once write for Sports Illustrated. I gave up on that dream long ago. However, maybe the dream is alive after all. I just got an email from SI inviting me to interview for an MLB writing job—that pays $10 per story. Should I laugh or cry?
I can’t overstate how much he was THE GUY from 2002-2004.
Not enough people talk about Eric Gagne
• 33-26 (.559 W-L), 3.47 ERA, 119 ERA+
• From '99-'01, a starter w/ 4.61 ERA
• Became a closer in '02 & WOW
• From 2002-2004, just nuts:
• 3 straight ASG selections
• 3 straight with 70+ GP
• 1.79 ERA, (223 ERA+)
• Won the 2003 NL CYA
• (55 SV, 1.20 ERA, wow)
• 365 K in 247 IP, 13.3 K/9
• Had 50 SV twice, 45 thrice
• 3 straight top-7 CYA finishes
• And a 0.822 WHIP in that span
• MLB consecutive SV record (84)
• Large Canadian and wore glasses
• Exactly 82.1 IP in each ASG season
• Had a TON of strikeouts for a closer
• Career 10.0 K/9, 1.156 WHIP, 11.7 WAR
• Did he do roids from '02-'04? Probably
• Eric Gagne’s MLB-record 84 consecutive saves from August 26, 2002, to July 5, 2004, included going a perfect 55-for-55 in save opportunities during his NL CYA-winning 2003 season with the LA Dodgers; only four pitchers have notched more than 28 saves in a season with a 100% conversion rate.
Subscriber nomination by @orwellian
Josh Allen already owns the record for most rushing TDs by a QB and this doesn’t even include the 2 scored tonight.
He is 6th in rushing yards and will be 5th by next month.
He’s not close to as electric as Michael Vick or Lamar Jackson, but his production is off the charts.
PCA is tied with Steve Finley (19-year MLB career) and Mike Trout (age 35) for the 5th most 10+ total base games by a center fielder in MLB history.
PCA is 24 and has played just 435 games in center field.
Note: PCA also has one 10+ TB game as a DH.
After recording 11 total bases last night, PCA now has 344 total bases on the season.
He is tied with Ernie Banks (1957) and Ryne Sandberg (1990) for the 17th most total bases by a Chicago Cub in a single season.
After last night's performance, PCA's WAR for the season now sits at 9.6.
That is the 7th-highest WAR by a center fielder since Willie Mays retired.
The last time Deshaun Watson threw for 400+ yards was October 6, 2019.
The last time Deshaun Watson threw 5+ TD passes was also October 6, 2019.
That was also the only game in his career where he accomplished both.
Watson could not be less delusional.
#Browns QB Deshaun Watson says the idea that he needs a good game to remain the QB1 for the Week 3 home opener is media-driven:
“I think the media has this expectation that I’m supposed to throw for 400 yards and 5 touchdowns every week.”
Watson says he’s focused on operating the offense and getting a W.
One of the sneakiest HOF No-Brainer Tier players was Cameron Heyward:
7X Pro Bowl
4X AP All-Pro 1st Team
2X AP All-Pro 2nd Team
208 QB Hits
142 Tackles for Loss
92.0 Sacks
He is one of twelve DTs with 4+ AP All-Pro 1st Team nods.
Aaron Donald (active) and Kevin Williams are the only two not in the HOF today.
🚨NEW EP: HOF TIERS🚨 Jim helps kickoff the new NFL season with a HOF-focused 2026 preview.
We cover four HOF tiers for active players:
🧠 No-Brainers
🏈 Nearly There
👷♂️ Some Work To Do
🍼 Too Young, But Tons Of Potential
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
I respect Alex. He does his HW and then some. But I could not disagree more here.
His first three seasons were not the enterity of his career. He had two other 1,300+ yard, 10+ TD seasons after that.
He is right on the first three seasons. 3X OPOY. 3X Top 2 MVP Finishes. 3X Rushing Title. Only Jim Brown from 1963-1965 and Marshall Faulk from 1999-2001 compares.
I have trouble finding a way to keep Earl Campbell out of the top 20, let alone have him ranked at 40.
I guess…..I don’t really care because WHIP is just one metric and definitely doesn’t explain to me who the best pitcher is on its own. Especially across eras. Especially when we are talking about a pitcher with such a short career.
Below is the leaderboard for best WHIP among starters since 1970. deGrom is the top dog.
Logan Gilbert ranks 5th.
Stephen Starsburg ranks 9th.
Masahiro Tanaka ranks 11th.
No Clemens, Maddux, Johnson, Smoltz, Glavine, Greinke, Halladay, Mussina, Blyleven, etc. to be found.
We look at a player’s entire career. Not just his WHIP.
Christian McCaffrey found himself in the “Nearly There” HOF Tier.
Such an interesting case. Low rushing yards (7,657) combined with great receiving yards (5,410), to along with superb TD numbers (98 total TDs).
One of just five members of the 5K Rushing/5K Receiving Club.
🚨NEW EP: HOF TIERS🚨 Jim helps kickoff the new NFL season with a HOF-focused 2026 preview.
We cover four HOF tiers for active players:
🧠 No-Brainers
🏈 Nearly There
👷♂️ Some Work To Do
🍼 Too Young, But Tons Of Potential
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…