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He won 214 games and lost 191 with a 3.37 earned run average across nineteen seasons and 3,548 innings, most of it for Chicago clubs that finished in the second division. He was heavy — the nickname was Big Daddy — and fielded his position well enough to win two Gold Gloves.

A rotator cuff injury cost him most of 1982 and all of 1983 and he was released. He came back with Pittsburgh in 1985 at thirty-six, won 14 games and Comeback Player of the Year, and then had three good seasons for San Francisco, starting the All-Star Game in 1987 at thirty-eight and appearing again the next year.

The modern statistical measures rate him considerably higher than his contemporaries did, largely for how much of his work came in Wrigley Field and for how poor the clubs behind him were. The writers gave him two votes of 473 in 1997 and dropped him after one ballot.