re: Best college pitching staff ever? 1983 Texas Longhorns!

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wins? You serious with this? Literally no one cares about this stat anymore when evaluating a pitcher's performance

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Triple crown of pitching: wins, strikeouts, and ERA. Crochet has Skubal beat on 2 out of 3, and he almost had a better ERA in a much harder division.

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Paul Skenes barely had a winning record last year with a sub 2 ERA

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The three best pitchers in baseball were Skubal, Crochet, and Skenes. Skenes’s wins didnt matter because he plays in an easier pitching conference. Crochet’s stats waxed the NL runner up

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Triple crown of pitching: wins, strikeouts, and ERA. Crochet has Skubal beat on 2 out of 3, and he almost had a better ERA in a much harder division.

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again, nobody cares. Skubal led the AL in basically every single advanced metric, which is why he won in a landslide.

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again, nobody cares

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Actually good point.

Tennessee is the only SEC team with a MLB hall of famer and a CY Young winner. Crochet is young and if he keeps going at this rate he will make Tennessee the only program with 2 of each lol. Not bad for a school who just started caring about baseball

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if he keeps going at this rate

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Dude can you read?

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Crochet has a looooooong way to go before you can start having HOF discussions about him. Just stop

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If he keeps doing what he is doing then he will certainly be in the conversation

Firstly lsufball19,
Thank you for posting a reasonable response. The 1989 LSU pitching staff is indeed worthy of consideration. Frankly, without looking into the Rod Dedeaux USC teams, I figured LSU was going to be the only team to approach the Texas record. The other team fans on this board are just gonna talk shite and not post their teams best college season stats. Thanks again for mentioning that 89 team.
See my comments below the ************ line.

Brave AI returned this for LSU Tigers 1989 team.

Skip Bertman, finished with a record of 55–17 and advanced to the College World Series (CWS), where they went 2–2. The team's pitching staff was led by standout performers:

Ben McDonald (Jr., RHP): 14–4, 3.49 ERA, 202 strikeouts (school record at the time), 152.1 innings, 8 complete games, 3 shutouts. He earned the Golden Spikes Award and National Player of the Year honors in 1989.
Curt Leskanic (Jr., RHP): 15–2, 3.19 ERA, 120 strikeouts, 115.2 innings.
Paul Byrd (Fr., RHP): 6–2, 3.37 ERA, 73 strikeouts in 90.2 innings.
Russ Springer (Jr., RHP): 9–3, 3.49 ERA, 89 strikeouts.
The team's overall pitching stats for the season included:

629.0 innings pitched
655 strikeouts
254 earned runs
1.31 WHIP
3.63 team ERA
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I found link below for 1989 pitching stats for LSU. Yes, that team is probably about as close to the 83 Texas team as any team is going to get.

However, to compare....
Texas era of 2.72 > LSU era of 3.63
Texas SO/BB ratio of 2.50 > LSU ratio of 2.35
I'd call number of games played and wins as equal. Lot of other factors besides pitching for record.
Texas did win CWS, LSU went 2-2.


https://thebaseballcube.com/content/stats_college/1989~20004/