How Today's MLB 'Aces' Have Changed fr

ball rates to how many pitches they throw to how hard they throw them to how effective each of their pitches are and so on.

Alas, the data only stretches back so far.

As much as I'd love to tell you whether or not modern pitchers have better or worse ground-ball rates or better or worse home run per fly ball rates, I can't. Nor can I show you which pitches old-school pitchers were throwing,, much less how often,, how hard or how well.All we have to go by for stuff like this are the legends, which obviously don't have much statistical credibility.

As such, there are many, many unknowns at play here. We don't know how modern ace pitchers compare to old-school ace pitchers down to the last detail, and I doubt we ever will.

But based on what we looked at, it's clear that contemporary aces are better at the art of pitching than old-school aces. They don't pitch as many innings,, sure, but they're better at striking guys out and at not walking guys, and they generally have better ERAs . And collectively, they perform that much better than the average pitcher than the old aces.

Maybe they're superhuman after all,.

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