Tim Kurkjian
speaker
527 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2023
last heard 18 Aug
Tim Kurkjian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And 1968, Bob Gibson had 13 shutouts.
Max Scherzer, who's our warrior god, whatever you call him, has 12 complete games in his career.
Gibson had more shutouts in one season than Max Scherzer had complete games.
Max Scherzer won a Cy Young long before he completed a game in the major leagues.
Jacob DeGrom is the other guy we talk about.
People ask me all the time, is he a Hall of Famer?
He has four complete games and two shutouts in his career because we don't allow him to go any further in a game.
And I think we need to change that.
I think a lot of these pitchers are dying to go nine innings.
We just won't let them because the industry says if we let you, you're going to get hit or you're going to get hurt.
I think it's time to make a change now.
in that perception of what a starting pitcher is.
Yes.
You know, when I grew up, Tony, in the mid 70s, not grew up, but I was watching baseball as a young man in the early 70s.
Earl Weaver had the greatest bench ever.
He used to call it deep depth on the bench.
All right.
He had like eight guys.
On the bench, he had right-handed hitters, left-handed hitters, pinch runners, power hitters.
He had everything.
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