Who is the best player offensively in Major League Baseball? And who is the best Pitcher also?
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For the best pitcher, I was thinking starting pitcher and used earned run average, quality start percentage, whip (walks and hits per innings pitched) , strikeouts per 9 innings and walks per nine innings.
Doing that I narrowed it down to three.
Zack Greinke 2.16 ERA, 79% quality starts, 1.07 WHIP, 9.54 K's/9, 4.75 bb/9
Chris Carpenter 2.24 ERA, 79% quality starts, 1.01 WHIP, 6.75 K's/9, 3.74 bb/9
Tim Lincecum 2.48 ERA, 81% quality starts, 1.05 WHIP, 10.42 K's/9, 3.84 bb/9
The statistics are very close in all categories, but since Lincecum has won back to back Cy Young Awards, I give him the nod for 2009.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/sort/OPS/order/true
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitching/_/type/expanded/order/false
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Hitters - Not in order Pitchers - Not in order
1. Adrian Gonzalez - SD 1. Tim Lincecum - SF
2. Albert Pujols - STL 2. Adam Wainright - STL
3. Dustin Pedroia - BOS 3. Josh Beckett - BOS
4. Joe Mauer - MIN 4. CC Sabathia - NYY
5. Mark Texiera - NYY 5. Zack Grienke - KC
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It's a hard debate for me between Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez.