K/9 IP quiz.

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Which right handed starting pitcher has the highest Met career rate for most strikeouts per nine innings (200 min. IP)?

Which left handed starting pitcher has the highest Met career rate for most strikeouts per nine innings (200 min. IP)?

A "Starting pitcher" is defined as one who has appeared in more games as a starter than as a reliever. All strikeouts for a pitcher thus defined as a starting pitcher were considered, including their strikeouts as a reliever.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gooden and Leiter

These guesses are too obvious and therefore likely to be wrong.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nolan Ryan, perhaps? I'll guess Nolan and Sid Fernandez.

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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Gooden and Leiter These guesses are too obvious and therefore likely to be wrong.

High Fives for you all around.

Leiter and Doc are both 5th place (Lefty and Righty respectively, duh) alltime Mets k/9 IP

[ashie62]

Gooden and Cone

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Seaver and Sid.

OE: Though Cone's a great guess.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Nolan Ryan, perhaps? I'll guess Nolan and Sid Fernandez.

Double Deuces for Grimm. Ryan and Sid are the runner ups on the lefty righty lists.

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Ashie62 wrote: Gooden and Cone

Which one? They're both rightys. Only of those could possibly be right.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Wait, doy-- Koos.

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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Seaver and Sid.

Seaver is 7th among righthanders.

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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Wait, doy-- Koos.

Nope.

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Seaver and Sid. OE: Though Cone's a great guess.

Is Coney a guess or a comment?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Matlack and Cone

[Guest Edgy DC]

Pedro and Johan.

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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Matlack and Cone

Cone is a winner. Matlack isn't.

Cone 8.72 k/9 IP
Ryan 8.70 K/9 IP.

Nobody guessed third or fourth place among rightys.

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Edgy DC wrote: Pedro and Johan.

Pedro is third among rightys.

Johan is fourth among leftys.

Who's 4th among rightys?
Rightys
1 Cone
2 Ryan
3 Pedro
4 ??????
5 Doc

Leftys
1 ????????
2 Sid
3 ??????
4Johan
5 Leiter

[Ceetar]

Lefty: Perez.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'd like to pause and point out that somebody used the term "doy" in this thread.

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Ceetar wrote: Lefty: Perez.

A winner here. Ollie Perez has the highest all time K/9 IP rate among Met lefty starters.

[MFS62]

Lefty - Randy Myers.
Later

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To round out the top five, we're missing 4Righty and 3Lefty.

Hint, these two pitchers are not obvious. I'll post the top 5 five lists in a few minutes.

[Benjamin Grimm]

My two guesses for the non-obviouses: Craig Swan and Frank Viola.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Non-obvious #4 righty: Bruce Berenyi

[MFS62]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Lefty: Perez. A winner here. Ollie Perez has the highest all time K/9 IP rate among Met lefties.

Nope, The question didn't say starters.
It said minimum of 200 IP
Perez 8.6
Myers (240 IP) 9.9

Later

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MFS62 wrote: Lefty: Perez. A winner here. Ollie Perez has the highest all time K/9 IP rate among Met lefties. Nope, not with the minimum of 200 IP Perez 8.6 Myers (240 IP) 9.9 Later

Myers relief appearances 185
Myers starts 0

[Guest Edgy DC]

NORH: El Duque.

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MFS62 wrote: Nope, The question didn't say starters. It said minimum of 200 IP Later

I thought it said both.

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Edgy DC wrote: NORH: El Duque.

El Duque is the 4th righty.

Cone 8.72
Ryan 8.70
Pedro 8.58
El Duque 8.17
Doc 7.78

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: MFS62 wrote: Nope, The question didn't say starters. It said minimum of 200 IP Later I thought it said both.

Yeah, it's probably too much work to check.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It very clearly said starters.