You forgot Appier, Boddiker, Farr, Wells, Ryan, Saberhagen... in fact Welch was 27th in rWAR in pitching, and Clemens should have won the Cy and MVP...
Overly broad. It's true for basketball (you can set the date at 1980 actually), and football (you have the merger, but really the 1985 Bears or 1986...