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Greg Maddux
STARTING PITCHER: Greg Maddux, Braves
 W-L 11-2     ERA 1.64    K's 107 

Let's get one thing straight: There is Maddux, and then there is everyone else. Tom Glavine? Andy Ashby? Aaron Sele? They're having nice seasons, sure, but as usual, no one has pitched better than Maddux. Even the greats have a clunker of a season once in a while. Not Maddux. He has run off six straight sub-3.00 ERAs—Ford, Gibson and Koufax never did—and is on his way to a seventh. He is 109-44 (.712) with a 2.14 ERA in 1,4241/3 innings during his six-year run. No pitcher has been that dominant since Koufax went 129-47 (.733) with a 2.19 ERA in 1,6322/3 innings between 1961 and 1966.

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