White Sox: The Mount Rushmore of starting pitchers

Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh in 1909. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)

No position in the series of creating mythical Mount Rushmores for the Chicago White Sox was more daunting than narrowing a field of 41 starting pitchers to four.

This large group included four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame and All-Star selections from the beginning of the midsummer classic in 1933 to the present era.

So how does one compare a pitcher who won 40 games in the 1910s to a guy who started 32 in the 2010s? Fortunately, statisticians have found a variety of ways to help normalize the numbers and the rest just has to go by feel.

Two of the Hall of Famers did not make the cut…