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I'm looking for the biggest drop in ERA+ from one year to the next, minimum 50 innings each season, with the majority of appearances being starts both years. The reason I ask is because Red Witt went 9-2 with a 1.61 ERA and 241 ERA+ in 1958, then the next year he went 0-7 with a 6.93 ERA and 56 ERA+. That's a difference in ERA+ of 185. Is that a record?
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my first guess was Brad Lidge but he falls a llittle bit short of Witt with a dropoff of "only" 165.
"There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game."
- Ted Williams
"I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting."
- Dick Stuart
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Earl Hamilton went from 352 to 92.
Nick Maddox went from 293 to 100.
Both barely pitched the required 50 IP in their good year.
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Dennis Eckersley dropped from 603 to 130
"There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game."
- Ted Williams
"I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting."
- Dick Stuart
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Kindly note the criteria I stipulated in post #1.Originally Posted by GiambiJuice
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kindly noted.
"There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game."
- Ted Williams
"I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting."
- Dick Stuart
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Hideo Nomo went from 393 in 2004 to 60 in 2005
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Looking at that more carefully, there is something wrong with his calculation in baseball-reference for 2004
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Tim Keefe went from 293 in 1880 to 90 in 1881
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