BOB GIBSON, SP: Simply put, there is no one similar to Gibson. Baseball-Reference.com’s Similarity Scores are appropriately bonkers. Gibson compares to the all-time greats, not the modern greats. (Those scores are low, too, with Jim Palmer’s 901. At 34, Gibson did line up with Dwight Gooden at the same age, but that even seems sepia-toned these days. Gibson was the most dominant player of this time – the late 1960s – and in 1968 he was on the way to an MVP and game-changing season. Without the availability of smart stats like we have today, those pesky Baseball Writers’ Association of America voters still nailed it with 14 of the 20 first-place votes going to Gibson, ahead of Pete Rose and Willie McCovey. The pitchers who are dominating the game like Gibson did are Justin Verlander, Clayton Kershaw, and Max Scherzer. At 32, the same age Gibson was in ’68, Verlander made $28 million. Seems low. Verlander had a 2.2 WAR that year. Gibson had a 11.2 WAR in ’68. Still, the market talks.