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Cy Young tops list of sharpshooters

By Rob Neyer
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Who are the greatest control pitchers of all time? To find out, we could look at the ratio between a player's strikeouts and walks – cleverly known among aficionados as "strikeout-to-walk ratio" – and by that measure the greatest control pitchers are, interestingly enough, Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling. Unfortunately, that list is absolutely dominated by modern pitchers; each of the top 11 on the list pitched in the 1990s (and would you believe that Shane Reynolds is No. 8 on the a ...

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