Best Pitching Rotation?

[Timmy D for MVP]

Baseball is the sport I know least about so I want to post the question:

What is the best pitching rotation of all time in your opinion?

Again my knowledge is limited but for me Smoltz, Maddux, and Glavine is pretty tough.

As an A's fan Hudson, Zito, Mulder and Blue, Hunter, Holtzman.

[Rose]

Smoltz, Maddux, Glavine Neagle Millwood probably. but the Koufax, Drysdale Sutton and osteen lineup was ridiculous too.

[Sarcastic]

1971 Baltimore Orioles had 4 twenty game winners. I am pretty sure they were the only team to ever do that.

[Carbine]

Whoever was the second and third pitchers on the staff with prime Pedro.

[Qwyjibo]

Originally Posted by Rose

Smoltz, Maddux, Glavine Neagle Millwood probably. but the Koufax, Drysdale Sutton and osteen lineup was ridiculous too.

Hard to argue with that.

Two guaranteed and deserving Hall of Famers, one who will be close and then two guys who had some nice peak years.

[HisJoeness]

Originally Posted by Sarcastic

1971 Baltimore Orioles had 4 twenty game winners. I am pretty sure they were the only team to ever do that.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

[OneMoreSucka]

Any of the mid 90s Braves teams

[branslowski]

DiamondBacks with Randy and Curt...
Championshp Marlins

Prob this years Phils...Halladay, Hamels, Oswalt, are sick

[Sarcastic]

Originally Posted by Sarcastic

1971 Baltimore Orioles had 4 twenty game winners. I am pretty sure they were the only team to ever do that.

I just looked it up. The 1920 Chicago White Sox also had 4 twenty game winners, but the difference was no one on the Orioles lost more than 9 games, whereas the Sox had 3 guys with double digit loses.

[Timmy D for MVP]

Originally Posted by Sarcastic

I just looked it up. The 1920 Chicago White Sox also had 4 twenty game winners, but the difference was no one on the Orioles lost more than 9 games, whereas the Sox had 3 guys with double digit loses.

I was talking more about cores that were proven successful in the longer run. Were these groups together for a few seasons?

[BRabbiT]

the braves are on this list twice

Originally Posted by espn

5. 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers
Sandy Koufax (27-9, 1.73), Don Drysdale (13-16, 3.42), Claude Osteen (17-14, 2.85), Don Sutton (12-12, 2.99)

4. 1993 Atlanta Braves
Greg Maddux (20-10, 2.36), Tom Glavine (22-6, 3.20), Steve Avery (18-6, 2.94), John Smoltz (15-11, 3.62)

3. 1986 New York Mets
Ron Darling (15-6, 2.81), Dwight Gooden (17-6, 2.84), Sid Fernandez (16-6, 3.52), Bob Ojeda (18-5, 2.57), Rick Aguilera (10-7, 3.88)

2. 1971 Baltimore Orioles
Mike Cueller (20-9, 3.08), Pat Dobson (20-8, 2.90), Jim Palmer (20-9, 2.68), Dave McNally (21-5, 2.68)

1. 1998 Atlanta Braves
Greg Maddux (18-9, 2.22), Tom Glavine (20-6, 2.47), Denny Neagle (16-11, 3.55), Kevin Millwood (17-8, 4.08), John Smoltz (17-3, 2.90)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...atestrotations

[Sarcastic]

Originally Posted by Timmy D for MVP

I was talking more about cores that were proven successful in the longer run. Were these groups together for a few seasons?

Yes. The Orioles produced something like 9 20 win seasons from that core over a period of like 3-4 years. 1971 in particular had 4 of those 9 20 win seasons.

[Meticode]

Originally Posted by Qwyjibo

Hard to argue with that.

Two guaranteed and deserving Hall of Famers, one who will be close and then two guys who had some nice peak years.

I can almost guarantee you Smoltz is making it too the Hall of Fame too. He has 200+ wins and 150+ saves. You know the only other player to ever do this in the majors? Dennis Eckersley. Who is in the hall of fame with 197 wins, 350 saves.

[Rose]

Originally Posted by Qwyjibo

Hard to argue with that.

Two guaranteed and deserving Hall of Famers, one who will be close and then two guys who had some nice peak years.

That rotation was just plain sick. Weird how Maddux was the CY young guy that year but not in the all star game lmao.

[bballer]

The O's had 4 20 game winners in '71

Palmer
Dobson
Cuellar
McNally