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Love that you brought him up. If there is a single athlete that I associate with Weaver's greatness, it might be Cuellar.
Earl took an age-32, injured, shaky, 100 pitcher out of Houston and turned him into a 290-IP 20-game winner through age 37. A Jamie Moyer story, if Moyer threw 250-290 IP with never a moment's sore arm.
James was baffled about Cuellar: "I've read everything Weaver ever wrote. Nothing in there explains how he was able to keep those pitchers healthy like that."
Actually, maybe the fact that he always made his RP decision based on whether his SP was laboring?