Also, a bad year for him was -5.


----- Original Message -----
From: tinman
To: stratmat@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [SPAM] [Stratmat] best strat-o-matic throwing arm rating ever?


I play in a retro league (currently 1970) and this conversation stream spurred
me to contact strat.

Here is their one sentence answer.

"The game only supports -5 as a maximum rating, there is no such thing as a
-6. That is just Steve being Steve.....
SOM"

So don't start changing your ratings, throwing arm is very subjective. Mays
had great arm and some -5's, Colavito was there once or twice, and I think dave
parker and Furillo. Although Mays and Colavito are the only ones who may have
been Roberto's equal. It seems some of Clemente's reputation stems from his
having retained a great arm for longer than most.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Christie
To: stratmat@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 4:49 PM
Subject: RE: [SPAM] [Stratmat] best strat-o-matic throwing arm rating ever?

I think this was Hal's way of playing tribute to Clemente. He is the only
player ever to get a -6 arm.

From: stratmat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:stratmat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Eric Lutzker
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:45 PM
To: stratmat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SPAM] [Stratmat] best strat-o-matic throwing arm rating ever?

i recently got the '71 cards that they just last year redid for
super-advanced and looking at the pirates i see that roberto clemente's
arm is a -6. now i don't remember seeing anything better than a -5
before (am i just remembering poorly). i guess if anyone deserves it it
is clemente. so how about it? has strat ever assigned anyone a -7? and
has anyone else ever gotten a -6. would anyone ever try to send a
runner on this guy? thanks, e

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