Greatest Starting Pitcher - 1980's

[Stars_Rangers_82]

This thread will allow you to vote for who in your opinion feel is the greatest player at his position for a particular decade. The criteria I will be using is 1,000 games played for position players, 250 games started for SP's, and 400 appearances for relief pitcher's.

Here are the candidates for the 1980's Starting Pitcher, and the poll will be closed at 3:35 CST on Monday, June 20th.

	W	L	ERA	SO	BB	CG	SHO	IP	H	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
Nolan Ryan	122	104	3.14	2167	894	44	15	2094	1603	0.210	0.296	0.305	0.601
Charlie Hough	128	114	3.67	1363	867	93	11	2121.2	1842	0.234	0.314	0.368	0.682
Dave Stieb	140	109	3.32	1380	825	92	27	2328.2	2019	0.235	0.308	0.351	0.659
Fernando Valenzuela	128	103	3.19	1644	838	102	27	2144.2	1876	0.237	0.309	0.336	0.646
Mike Scott	114	90	3.42	1324	537	41	20	1803.2	1594	0.237	0.294	0.356	0.650
Jack Morris	162	119	3.66	1629	858	133	20	2443.2	2212	0.241	0.305	0.379	0.684
Bob Welch	137	93	3.21	1457	666	47	22	2082.1	1885	0.242	0.303	0.355	0.658
Don Sutton	107	86	3.53	1050	424	26	8	1765.2	1655	0.246	0.291	0.377	0.668
Bert Blyleven	123	103	3.64	1480	557	94	21	2078.1	1984	0.251	0.305	0.384	0.689
Rick Sutcliffe	116	93	3.87	1285	745	59	15	1860	1764	0.253	0.325	0.383	0.708

[Mudge]

Gotta go with Nolan Ryan on this one.

[RickD]

Ryan was the 80's to me!

[wcs71401]

I went Jack Morris here. Against popular judgement

[Mr. Baseball]

There really isn't much to debate here. Nolan Ryan.

[WilsonC]

Ryan takes this one.

[Mickey Mental]

Nolan Ryan

[Scoobean]

If there would have been a pitcher from the 80's that had many more wins than loses and a better ERA than Nolan Ryan they would have got my vote. It is hard to go against that amount of strikeouts though.