Build the perfect pitcher

[Victory Faust]

I posted something along these lines a few weeks back, but it was hidden in another thread, and I thought it might be deserving of its own thread.

If you could build the perfect pitcher with a complement of five pitches in his arsenel, how would you do it? To illustrate what I'm talking about, here's my perfect pitcher:

Walter Johnson's fastball.
Bert Blyleven's curveball.
Bruce Sutter's split-finger fastball.
Pedro Martinez' changeup.
Randy Johnson's slider.

How would you put together your perfect pitcher?

[Sultan_1895-1948]

McGinnity's stamina
Clemens' mentality
Maddux's accuracy
Babe's hitting
Matty's fielding

Walter's fastball
Pedro's change
Smoltz's slider
Gooden's curve
Clemens' splitty

[RuthMayBond]

Clemens' mentality

Matty's fielding

I'll take Maddux's fielding, and maybe Gibson's mentality

[Sultan_1895-1948]

I'll take Maddux's fielding, and maybe Gibson's mentality

Fielding is coin flip although Greggy boy probably gets the nod.

Depends on what era this "weird science" pitcher is pitching in. Gibby wouldn't last a full inning in today's game with the over-sensitive whiner crowd at the dish.

I'll stick with Clemens cause he can travel back and intimidate or harness it and still deal with today's environment.

[dgarza]

Perry's cap
Koufax's park

[RuthMayBond]

Mike Scott's pockets?

[RuthMayBond]

John M. Ward's basestealing?

[dgarza]

John M. Ward's basestealing?

DAMN IT! I was just going to say his feet!

[Eastvanmungo]

Ed Walsh's spitter
Russ Ford's emery ball
Early Wynn's mean streak
Dizzy Dean's gift of the gab
Lefty Grove's will to win
Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish's name

[Androctus]

Add in Ryne Duren's last warmup pitch... the one that usually hit the backstop.

[Blackout]

Randy Johnsons mullet

[Sultan_1895-1948]

Randy Johnsons mullet

Rollie Finger's mustache

(Maybe I'll go morph all this together and post a pic of this freak )

[ElHalo]

Am I missing something? Isn't Mo Rivera's cutter the greatest pitch of all time (unless you have some fondness for Big Train's fastball)?

[stlkev70]

Bob Gibson's intisity

[Sultan_1895-1948]

Am I missing something? Isn't Mo Rivera's cutter the greatest pitch of all time (unless you have some fondness for Big Train's fastball)?

That argument could be made EH, based on it being his only pitch, and the success he's had with it. It's his control and pinpoint accuracy with that pitch, that makes it so effective though. Not necessarily the actual pitch itself. If that makes any sense. Also, he only needs to have success with it one, maybe two innings at a time. No way he could go through the lineup three or four times and have the same success.

- Fernando's windup

- Ricky Vaughn's skull and crossbone glasses