Pitcher Greg Maddux to retire at the start of Baseball Winter Meetings on Monday.
One of the best in the game, not only this generation but all time.
.610 winning percentage 355 career wins, 227 losses.
3371 strikeouts with only 999 walks.
Career 3.16 era...over 5008 innings pitched - 2 twenty win seasons and 5 nineteen win seasons
4 Cy Young Awards ( Non Steroid Division ) 18 career Gold Gloves
8th All time in career Wins...1 ahead of Clemens and 26 ahead of Carlton
10th all time in strikeouts and 13th in innings pitched
4th in games started with 743
Last game pitched was against the Phils in game 5 of the NLCS.
Career earnings of $ 153,845,000.00..............some serious change there.
He's lucky because he will get in the Hall on the first ballot. If it were up to the Veterans Committee he might not make it...
Kind of a shame he's picking this year. He only needs 9 wins to break Spahn's record...at least he's ahead of Clemens though...
It will be interesting to see if Maddux breaks Tom Seavers vote record.
Seaver in 1992 set the record for the highest percentage on being voted into the Hall of Fame with 98.84% of the votes. He was named on 425 of a possible 430 ballots.
Top 10- % of ballots :
Tom Seaver 1992 - 425 of 430 = 98.84 %
Nolan Ryan 1999 - 491 0f 497 = 98.79%
Cal Ripken, Jr. 2007 - 537 of 545 = 98.83 %
Ty Cobb 1936 - 222 of 226 = 98.23%
George Brett 1999 - 488 of 497 = 98.19%
Hank Aaron 1982 - 406 of 415 = 97.83%
Tony Gwynn 2007 - 532 of 545 = 97.61%
Mike Schmidt 1995 - 444 of 460 = 96.52%
Johnny Bench 1989 - 431 of 447 = 96.42%
Steve Carlton 1994 - 436 of 455 = 95.82%
2 phils on that list :grin: