Word: osteen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best pitching staff in baseball." Lefthander Sandy Koufax has painful arthritis in his throwing elbow, still leads the league with twelve wins (v. three losses) and 159 strikeouts. Righthander Drysdale, when he isn't thinking about base hits, pitches well enough to post another eleven victories. Lefthander Claude Osteen, picked up over the winter from the American League's Washington Senators, has accounted for six, and "should have won three more victories than he shows," according to Manager Alston. The combined earned-run average of all three: a measly...
...once a week, which the doctors say he probably can do, the Dodgers look golden. No other team can bring a topflight starter to the mound as consistently as Los Angeles, with Koufax, Don Drysdale, and the rejuvenated Johnny Podres now backed up by Claude Osteen, who some won 15 games for the lowly Washington Senators last year. If Ron Perranoski is back in forth, the relief pitching is as good as anyone's. In any event, Bob Miller, alternating between starting and relief roles, and looking like a top-flight pitcher after an excellent spring training season...