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ProfessorGAC

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5. I Could Have Had 1000 Strikeouts Before Age 24!

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Tue Dec 4, 2018, 12:14 PM

Dec 2018

If i had a major league contract at 19, i easily would have struck out 200 times a year!!!

Back to the point at hand: Notable by his absence is Ryan who when he first came up couldn't find the plate. So, nobody bothered swinging. Once he took 2mph off and started finding the strike zone, then it was "look out" time.

He was 25 his first year in Anaheim and had 329 K's in 284 innings and his ERA which averaged around 3.5 with the Mets fell to 2.28.

If he had found the magic 3 years sooner he might have exceeded 6,000 k's.

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