Comments on: Mark Buehrle is Perfect

By: Kristyn

Kristyn — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:19:36 +0000

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY MAN DID….THERES NO WORD TO DESCRIBE IT. I think every1 is still shocked including me…..Beautifully written Soxy………Mark is VERY underrated….Look at C.C. personally I dont think he can handle the NY pressure…ahh my boy Johan, not to knock him or anything but hes scuffling this year for the Mets. I feel bad for Josh Fields…he was the Offensive hero with that mean Slam…I went crazy. and D-Wise…oh my Lord…………Thats all I can say…WOW!!!!!!!!! GAME OF THE CENTURY!!!!!!! CONGRATS TO THE WHOLE CHICAGO WHITE SOX TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOP THAT CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!! Soxman as always you do it again ;)

By: Soxman

Soxman — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:47:21 +0000

Fellow sports writers.

Isn’t debate what makes baseball great? I was not comparing Mark Buehrle to CC Sabathia for the purposes of trying to lay claim who is the more dominant pitcher or who even is the better pitcher. The point was to raise thought provoking topics in saying that Mark Buehrle is getting paid about a third of what CC Sabathia is being paid and besides strikeouts, which I never said were not important the number are actually very comparable.

Age is irrelevant, major league service time is. “Mr. Perfect” had ONE more year of major league experience than CC Sabathia and in Buehrle’s first year in the majors, he broke in as a reliever, only starting THREE games. Sabathia has been a starter is entire career.

So for the sake of argument of “age” meaning experience, if you take Buehrle’s first year, and all the stats associated with it away, Buehrle has still pitched 129 more innings than Sabathia AND has two more wins.

CC is a power pitcher while Buehrle is more of a finesse guy so I’m not debating the strikeouts. As a “call out” to Pete Anderson, I’m also not debating who I would draft first in fantasy baseball. But when you think of one of the better pitchers in the last nine years, Buehrle’s name never even comes up.

It’s time to start questioning why?

By: jmccormick

jmccormick — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:07:58 +0000

Thank god he’s on my fantasy team :-D. I do agree with Schmidt though. He’s underrated, but give it a couple more years before comparing cc and buerhle outright. plus cc shouldve had a no hitter last year, but I think I might be a bit bias.

By: David K.

David K. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:26:48 +0000

seeing a no-no or perfect game in person is on my Bucket List…

By: Paul Schmidt

Paul Schmidt — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:57:33 +0000

Sure, Buerhle is underrated, but the CC comparison doesn’t hold a ton of water….He’s younger, has pitched two less seasons in the majors, and has almost 350 more strikeouts.

And yes, strikeouts are important.

By: paulmbanks

paulmbanks — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:23:49 +0000

I love the CC comparison. damn right Buerhle is underrated! I also liek the the smack going on at the end- HJB I know you’re going to have somethng to say about that.

By: paulmbanks

paulmbanks — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:22:40 +0000

After I interviewed him before opening day, I compared him to White Sox legend Billy Pierce, another lefty with similar career numbers. Pierce had a perfect game going in ’58 until Fitzgerald of the Washington Senators doubled off him withn two out in the 9th. NOw Burles has 2 things up on Pierce a perfecto and a ring!