Best Pitching rotations ever? (1 Viewer)

[Sea Bass]

Which baseball team had the best pitching rotation of all-time? Also, what is the best rotation that you have personally witnessed?

Some to consider;

1966 Dodgers

1. Koufax

2. Drysdale

3. Osteen

4. Sutton

1971 Orioles

Mike Cuellar 20-9

Pat Dobson 20-8

Dave McNally 21-5

Jim Palmer 20-9

1998 Braves

Maddux 18-9 2.22 ERA

Glavine 20-6 2.47 ERA

Neagle 16-11 3.55 ERA

Millwood 17-8 4.08 ERA

John Smoltz 17-3 2.90 ERA

1971 Mets

Tom Seaver

Jerry Koosman

Nolan Ryan

Jon Matlack

1906 Cubs

M. Brown 26-6

J. Pfiester 20-8

E. Reulbach 19-4

C. Lundgren 17-6

J. Taylor 12-3

O. Overall 12-3

They had a total of 28 shutouts.

 

[comfortably numb]

Gotta say, the 98 Braves having 3 sub-par 3.00 ERA, in a league where Mcgwire had 70 HR's and Sosa had 66 is very impressive.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

1904 New York Giants

Age W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP SP Joe McGinnity 33 35 8 .814 1.61 51 44 7 38 9 5 408.0 307 103 73 8 86 144 13 1 2 1613 0.963 SP Christy Mathewson 23 33 12 .733 2.03 48 46 2 33 4 1 367.2 306 120 83 7 78 212 4 1 10 1456 1.044 SP Dummy Taylor 29 21 15 .583 2.34 37 36 1 29 5 0 296.1 231 100 77 6 75 138 9 1 7 1165 1.033 I'll take the '06 Cubs over any of them. I'd probably take the staff of the 1913 Senators before I took the '71 Mets.

ETA: #### you code function!

 

[MrPhoenix]

Pre 1950: 1906 Cubs

Post 1950: 1998 Braves