Dave Stieb was one of the most competitive, scary pitchers to face in the '80s. The man was intimidating to opposing hitters AND his teammates. If he were pitching in today's age of analytics he'd get way more credit for being the great pitcher he was.
Something I never noticed...the reverence that Stieb's teammates gave him after the game. It was a combination of happiness, awe, and respect for an accomplishment that was long overdue, albeit for some bad luck.
"This is how the sport of baseball moves. Not at all, and then all at once, with such terrifying speed the lines begin to bend, and then not at all, perfectly into (Junior) Felix’s glove." - Jon Bois, Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb
Dave Stieb was a workhorse kick ass pitcher in the 1980's. After all those years with the Blue Jays, It's a shame that he wasn't on the 1992 playoff roster that won it all & 1993 he was with the White Sox.
I swear Stieb has to be the unluckiest pitcher ever. A few more things break in the right way for him and we'd be talking about the guy with like 4-5 no-hitters, back to back no-hitters, and how he dominated batters on the mound in the 1980s on his way to Cooperstown.
@@squirrelguy2195 1988 was a bloodbath for Steib. He lost his first no hitter on a ball that went off an fielder's glove and should have been called an error. He lost one on a cartoonish hop in Cleveland where the ball acted like something out of bugs bunny. Even Julio Franco said that one was bullshitt. "I was out, there is no way that ball should have ever hopped like that."
@@craigwheeler4760Also have to include that due to Jimy Williams inexplicably demoting him to the bullpen partway into the season, he lost out on an incentive in his contract that guaranteed him nor money down the line if he hit a certain innings threshold.
