The Stories From MLB's Greg Maddux Documentary Definitively Prove He Was the Best Pitcher Ever

I haven't seen this full documentary yet, but I can't wait to sit down and watch the whole thing. These stories are incredible.

I'm glad Greg Maddux pitched recently enough that I remember watching him a little bit, because we'll never see another guy like this ever again. Until there's a market correction — if that ever even happens — the best pitchers in baseball going forward are just going to be guys who throw insanely hard for three or four years until they're forced to take a season off for elbow surgery and then repeat the process. And that seems to be the way teams want things to be.

There are certainly valid arguments for other guys to be the best pitcher of all-time, but if you gave any one of them the command and cerebral ability of Maddux, they'd improve dramatically. And if you gave Maddux the arm of Randy Johnson or Roger Clemens, nobody else would even be in the conversation. Maddux has some of the best numbers ever throwing 90 MPH against guys juiced out of their minds on steroids. He's the GOAT.

They just don't make 'em like this anymore. We used to have pitchers who told the pitching coach to go back to the dugout and watch him get a pop-up in two pitches and now everything is run by a computer that takes starters out after four innings of one-hit ball. Sad.