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Koufax had a good team around him? The Dodgers of that era were so pathetic at the plate that when Drysdale was told Koufax pitched a no-hitter, he asked if he had won the game. To compare Dale Murphy's career to that of Sandy Koufax is silly. Koufax could have and should have been the MVP for about four years in a row. He won one and lost two- one to Mays and the other to Clemente. Murphy won two, the first one in 1982 do you know who finished second in the voting. The immortal Lonnie Smith. His last four years he was 97-27 with a total of 31 shutouts and almost 1,200 strikeouts. Murphy's best four years he average 36 homers and 110 runs batted in, hardly Ruthian.