Talk:Doc's First Ten Years: Goodenough?/@comment-101836-20060405205838

I agree that the comparisons to Koufax aren&quot;t good ones. The only reason they&quot;re making that comparison is time frame. But Koufax&quot;s numbers are better in that decade. And much as you&quot;d like to ignore it, you can&quot;t ONLY look at the first ten years and pretend like he didn&quot;t have a career after that, especially when you consider how young he was when he began to slide. It&quot;s not like he got old and ran out of gas. Wasn&quot;t he 29 at the start of the 1994 season? He doesn&quot;t have great numbers, and the only way you make it in with that situation, in my opinion, is to be like other players that made up for it in other areas. Take Nolan Ryan. Bad numbers, but how can you deny a guy that shattered no-hit and strikeout records? Ozzie Smith was bad on offense, but he revolutionized the way people played shortstop. You have to be that kind of differencemaker to compensate for lackluster stats, and Gooden didn&quot;t have that.