Originally Posted by
irish1
I love the game of baseball. I get into the stat's and really love the trades in the off season. However, I have always said Mlb players are so babied it's a joke. Pitchers don't throw complete game shutouts anymore, hell they don't even throw complete games. Back in the day pitchers would throw 8-10 shutouts in a season, now it's 8-10 in a 20 year career and 200 innings is rare. Now you can't even slide into second base to breakup a doubleplay. Talking about stat's this one says it all Cal Ripken's consecutive games streak is 2130, none of the player's in the game today will come close to that. Ryan's 7 No Hitters is eternally safe, along with his 5000 strikeouts. Any record that requires a player to play everyday or pitch every five days will not be broken because they just don't play like that anymore. Will any pitcher ever strikeout 300 or more in a season again? Randy Johnson did it in 2002 striking out 334. so, for 12 years from 2002-2014 no major league pitcher reached 300 strikeouts in a season. Kershaw finally did it in 2015 -301. They baby these players like crazy. Ton's of records will be safe simple because there is no guts no glory like the old players had.