If you could create the ultimate pitcher

[jbone17]

Hey fellas. I was just laying in bed this morning and this idea came to me. If you had the ability to be a supernatural pitcher with accurate and dominating stuff, whose pitches would you want to replicate in order to make you unstoppable? These are the players that I would choose:

Nolan Ryan's fastball
Pedro Martinez's change up
Bob Gibson's curve ball
Mariano Rivera's cutter

Hopefully this generates some good insight! You can pick your arsenal as well. Nothing is set.

 

[jeff_bichel]

J.R. Richards speed and accuracy, without the addictions...

 

[MrMet]

J.R. Richards speed and accuracy, without the addictions...

Goodens curve, with the same caveat

 

[phillyfan0417]

Steve Carltons Slider
Randy Johnsons Fastball
Kershaws Curve

I think i wouldnt need a 4th pitch...

 

[Bootstraps9]

Righty
Ryan's Fastball
Darvish's Slider
Wainwright's Curve
Lincecum's Change
Rivera's Cutter
Dickey's Knuckle (try and hit that when you're geared up for Ryan's heat lol)

Lefty
Johnson's Fastball
Johnson's Slider
Kershaw's Curve
Sabathia's Change (?)
Lee's Cutter (?)
I don't think I need the cutter and I don't really know a lefty with an absolutely dominant change or just can't pull it off the top of my head


Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

 

[Topnotchsy]

jbone17 - I hope you don't mind, I changed the title of your thread. It gave no indication about what it was about and I think this way it will get far more attention. It's a fun thread, and I did not want it to get buried.

 

[Topnotchsy]

Righty
Ryan's Fastball
Darvish's Slider
Wainwright's Curve
Lincecum's Change
Rivera's Cutter
Dickey's Knuckle (try and hit that when you're geared up for Ryan's heat lol)

Lefty
Johnson's Fastball
Johnson's Slider
Kershaw's Curve
Sabathia's Change (?)
Lee's Cutter (?)
I don't think I need the cutter and I don't really know a lefty with an absolutely dominant change or just can't pull it off the top of my head


Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

Why two pitchers? How about 1 ambidextrous pitcher with those skills lol.

 

[Bootstraps9]

Why two pitchers? How about 1 ambidextrous pitcher with those skills lol.

Not worth the time that would be spent changing gloves lol


Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

 

[Hendersonfan]

Why two pitchers? How about 1 ambidextrous pitcher with those skills lol.

My coach in Babe Ruth could hit about 88 lefty and around 85 righty. Only got to A ball or maybe AA and did something to his knees? Said he pitched both games of a double header, one left, one right.

 

[Topnotchsy]

Not worth the time that would be spent changing gloves lol


Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

Maybe he has Jim Abbott's glove changing skills lol

 

[MrMet]

Maybe he has Jim Abbott's glove changing skills lol

Wasn't there a switch pitcher who had a special glove... Pat Venditte I thinnk

 

[DaClyde]

Fernando Valenzuela's screwball
Pascual Perez's Pascual Pitch

And if I can, I'd like to request the strike zone the Braves pitchers were given in the early 1990s where a Maddux change a foot off the plate was still a strike.

 

[MrMet]

Oooh, Maddux's control with Steve Dalkowskis fastball....

 

[Bootstraps9]

I forgot one thing! Give me Mariano's strike zone please!


Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

 

[fkw]

just clone Pedro Martinez ca1999-2000 stats are incredible knowing it was against DH's and the PED Era ie .73 WHiP, 1.74 ERA, 313 SO's, 13.2 SO/9 innings, 23W-4L (1999) also love the fact he had 14 Hit By Pitch, and only 32 Walks in 2000.... an Intimidator at only 5'-10" 170 lbs

 

[matfanofold]

Wind up - Oil Can Boyd
Generalship - Oral Hershiser
Fast ball - Nolan Ryan
Cutter - Mariano Rivera
Curve - Dwight Gooden
Control - Greg Maddux
Knuckle ball - R.A. Dickey
Slider - Dice K (early on)

 

[Austin]

A combination of these guys:

Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn
Nuke LaLoosh
Sam "Mayday" Malone
Sidd Finch
Charlie Brown

 

[jbone17]

A combination of these guys:

Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn
Nuke LaLoosh
Sam "Mayday" Malone
Sidd Finch
Charlie Brown

Dear lord lol. Good answers so far, fellas!

 

[RedSoxNationMT]

God already created the ultimate pitcher and sent him down immaculately through the ***** of Paulino Martinez into the womb of Leopoldina Martinez.

 

[D-Lite]

God already created the ultimate pitcher and sent him down immaculately through the ***** of Paulino Martinez into the womb of Leopoldina Martinez.

I guess if your ultimate pitcher sports a jheri curl, enjoys throwing old men to the ground, and travels with a midget.