The level of play in the playoffs has been outstanding

[BeyondGeography]

3. Warren Spahn

Not recent, but ever true:

“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”

I miss watching the masters who could approach the same hitter three or four different ways and go the full nine. Even when they didn’t have their best stuff it was compelling. I remember seeing Valenzuela throw 160 pitches here against the Mets once, gave up four runs or so but won the game, extricating himself from jams in the late innings by getting hitting geniuses like Keith Hernandez out on guile. Good times, never to be seen again.