19. Chuck Finley, 200 wins, 115 ERA+, 3,197 1/3 innings, 2,610 strikeouts, 58.1 bWAR
After trying in the June 1984 draft to draft him in the 15th round, the Angels again selected Charles Edward Finley with the 4th overall selection in the January 1985 draft. Standing 6’6″ tall and a well-defined 220 pounds, Finley was a guy that drew female interest almost immediately, and he would go on to have his career overshadowed by an incident of domestic abuse committed by his actress wife that became sports talk show fodder to berate Finley and degrade him for “letting” a woman assault him.
Finley established himself into the Angels rotation in 1988 and was an All-Star the next two seasons. The Angels would come to feature a left-handed front three in their rotation that was one of the best in the game’s history with Finley, Mark Langston, and Jim Abbott.
Unfortunately, the Angels really did not experience much success with that trio on the mound, only finishing .500 or better once in the four seasons they were together. Langston and Finley would continue to be paired together until 1996. Finley was moved to the Indians, where he would be steady for the Indians in 2001, but after struggling in 2001, the Indians made a move to trade him to the Cardinals mid-season in 2002. In spite of throwing well down the stretch, he did not find a job for the next season in what would have been his age-40 season.
Finley finished his career with exactly 200 wins, making 5 All-Star games, and incredibly, in spite of finishing among the league leaders multiple times in various pitching stats, his teams were often not good enough to push him over the top for votes, and he only received Cy Young Award votes in one season.
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