Your favorite pitcher of all-time is still a classy guy.
This article is about his support for Ryan.
http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/10/04/11/Seaver-ecstatic-over-Nolan-Ryans-success/landing_rangers.html?blockID=575248&feedID=9345
"I threw hard. [Jerry] Koosman threw hard and [Gary] Gentry threw hard. We were all hard throwers and then there was Nolan," Seaver recalled.
"I haven't talked to him about pitch counts but I can presume what he would be thinking. Pitch counts are crazy, right? They're absurd," Seaver said. "I had a pitch count. Under Gil Hodges, I had a pitch count. It was my pitch count. I determined where I was beginning to go downhill and it's about 135 pitches. It wasn't computer driven but it was an honest pitch count number for me as a general rule. Koosman was probably 145 pitches, the big left-handed German. Nolan was probably 155. I think he's brought that philosophy forward."
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The pitch count thing is very interesting. Leave it to Seaver to have thought in terms of pitch count that long ago. What a package he was: velocity, control, intelligence. Was it fact or lore that Ryan once threw 240 pitches in an extra inning game?
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