Justin Verlander^, HOU (9th) The 39-year-old Verlander, who has a Major League-leading 11 wins and a 2.00 ERA, adds another highlight to his remarkable comeback season from Tommy John surgery. It's his ninth career All-Star team, tied for the most among active pitchers with fellow 202...
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Verlander is going into his age-42 season and will be older than all of those pitchers were when those deals were signed, but he also has a more impressive overall track record and plenty of recent success he can point to. For a closer age comparison,Rich Hillgot $8MM from the Pirates ...
The southpaw keeps chugging along. He’s now seventh among active pitchers in wins and fifth in strikeouts, and although a strained oblique cost him about six starts this summer, he’s suffered little deterioration as far as the velocity of his fastball (around 92 mph) or the effectiveness ...
They can also shed light on how pitchers have been used, including how many innings a team has been getting out of a starting pitcher, or how many relief pitchers they have used. This information can help you gauge how a manager will make use of available pitchers in the bull pen in M...
he told reporters last night (link via Jesse Borek and Anthony DiComo of MLB.com). While the Mets probably won’t make the decision until tomorrow, it seems McNeil will be active. That’d probably pushLuisangel Acuñaoff the roster unless the Mets decide to drop to 12 pitchers despite ...
Kershaw will go down as one of the two greatest starting pitchers in Dodgers history (along with Sandy Koufax) if notthegreatest. He’s had a career that could make him a first-ballot selection to the Hall of Fame. But what might he have done if it hadn’t been for shoulder, elbow ...
Kershaw is fourth all-time in WHIP at 1.007, and two of the pitchers ahead of him, Addie Joss and Ed Walsh, pitched against Ty Cobb in the dead ball era; the other was a closer, Mariano Rivera. In the first of our positional and team unit rankings, we present the top 10 starting ...
Top Pitchers:Craig Kimbrel, Yennier Cano, Danny Coulombe The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland, that competes in Major League Baseball. They are a member of the East Division of the American League. One of the AL's eight charter franchise...
Starting pitchers have the most dramatic impact on the total. Let’s take Walker Buehler as an example. During the 2021 MLB season, the Dodgers ace was among the MLB leaders with a sparkling 2.47 ERA, and surrendered more than three runs just four times in 33 starts. Walker’s impressive...