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SIMMONS: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander joins GOAT conversation with Wayne Gretzky and Guy Lafleur
@Source: torontosun.com
That was Jenkins’ fifth straight 20-win season, back when winning games meant something for a starting pitcher. He won 20 again the following season. And again two seasons later in Texas.
He’s the greatest Canadian baseball player we’ve ever known.
Larry Walker won an MVP award with the Colorado Rockies in 1997. He hit 49 home runs that season, knocked in 130 and lead the National League in those eight different categories finishing the year with a career-high OPS of 1.172 and a career high WAR of 9.8.
Jenkins and Walker are the baseball Canadians to remember. Davies is the soccer player from Bayern Munich we should never forget. Howe and Lemieux and Orr and Crosby have played hockey, really, like no one else has ever played. Each of them stylistic individuals of mammoth skill.
But right now, as of Sunday night, there is Gretzky and Lafleur and Gilgeous-Alexander with the single greatest seasons in Canadian sport. When Mike Weir won the Masters, he did that over four days, historical as it may have been. When Bianca Andreescu won the U.S. Open, she did that over a two-week tournament.
Gilgeous-Alexander played 99 games this season with Oklahoma City, one more than Gretzky played in 1985, five more than Lafleur managed with the Canadiens of 1977.
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