Tom Seaver

Twelve-time All-Star Tom Seaver was, arguably, the greatest pitcher in the major leagues between the retirement of Sandy Koufax and the blossoming of Roger Clemens, who was his teammate on the 1986 Boston Red Sox. Seaver, who won 311 games in his career, likely would have won more if he had been on a powerhouse team like the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, or Cincinnati Reds during the heyday of the Big Red Machine. (He did pitch, and very well, for the Reds towards the end of the Big Red Machine dynasty.) However, he pitched for the anemic hitting Mets, and helped pitch them into two World Series: 1969, which the Mets won in five games over the dynastic Baltimore Orioles of manager Earl Weaver, and 1973, which the Mets lost in seven to the dynastic Oakland A's of owner Charles O. Finley. A five-time 20-game winner, "Tom Terrific" won a then-record three Cy Young awards, in 1969 (the year he came in #2 in MVP voting), 1973 and 1975. (He ranked in the top five in Cy Young voting eig