00:00Okay, I got a hint on Clayton Kershaw here.
00:02So Clayton Kershaw calls it a career.
00:05You know, he's been pulled from Team USA.
00:08Bob, in your opinion, his place in baseball history, I mean, you know, when you're a Hall of Fame voter,
00:15how do you look at the inefficiencies in the postseason?
00:20How do you match that up?
00:21I mean, if you look at Roger Clemens also, not spectacular postseason numbers.
00:26They got better with the Yankees.
00:28And the same thing, again, with Greg Maddox.
00:31When you look at a guy like Clayton Kershaw and you vote for a guy like that,
00:36how do you balance all of it?
00:38The great regular season numbers, the ERAs, and then you look at the postseason.
00:43How do you look at Clayton Kershaw's career?
00:46I mean, certainly a first-fought Hall of Famer.
00:49I mean, he's got a chance to, you know, be unanimous.
00:52I mean, if not, it's going to be very, very close.
00:54Like you said, I mean, you know, Greg Maddox didn't have the best postseason career.
00:59Neither did Tom Lavin.
01:00It's the hard-throwing guys that have the great postseasons.
01:04It's not the finesse guys.
01:06So, no, marvelous career.
01:08You always wonder what would happen if Kershaw had pitched in the American League.
01:12He pitched with no DH for all those years in a great pitcher division
01:18where all the Sean Young Awards came every year from the NL West.
01:22Best division for a pitcher.
01:24Big ballparks to pitch in.
01:27And, like I said, no DH those years.
01:30So, I know guys like Justin Verlander, you know, say, wait a minute.
01:33Now, I was pitching the AL, the powerful AL all those years with a DH.
01:37What would my life have been like if I pitched the whole time nationally in West?
01:41So, but, yeah, he'll be a first ballot.
01:45Bob, so you're saying that you think it's tougher to pitch in the American League
01:48than it is in the National League.
01:49Is that correct?
01:51It was.
01:52I mean, remember now the DH just came into effect in 2001.
01:56Or 2000, I'm sorry, 2021.
01:59Remember they had the thing with COVID.
02:01And then we can't say, you know what, we need more offense in the game.
02:04So, before 2021, you know, the DH was only in the American League.
02:09So, it was a lot easier to pitch in the National League than the American League,
02:12particularly the AL East.
02:14You know, it shows you what a guy like Pedro Martinez did.
02:17Pitching the AL East, those lineups, steroids were out of control.
02:22Unbelievable.
02:23Those lineups are so much tougher than anything you saw in the National League.
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