Hisashi Yamada
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Re: Hisashi Yamada
[ Author: Guest: Jim Albright | Posted: Jan 23, 2004 12:24 PM
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I think I'd go with Maddux. He was a right handed submariner with a tendency to give up the long ball, per Fitts and Engle's book. To match the style in a starter who approaches the level of Yamada's accomplishments, I think you'd have to go to Carl Mays, and C. Mays wasn't as dominant in MLB as Yamada was in NPB.
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Wow! I don't have much comparative fielding info on pitchers before 1957, so I'll restrict myself to that. It might seem like Jim Palmer might fit, but Total Baseball only has him being the highest rated pitcher in 1975. There are still a couple of guys who were the highest rated pitcher at least three times. You get to choose between Gibson (who pitched in an era more similar to Yamada-san) or Maddux (who correlates better in terms of not relying on strikeouts). And I need to look up which hand Yamada threw with.