Even the most ardent opponents of the wins stat have to give a hat tip to McLain, who is one of just four pitchers in the Live Ball Era (since 1920) -- and the most recent -- to reach the epic 30-wins plateau. McClain won 31 of his 41 outings that year for a Tigers club tha...
And thus, two of the best power pitchers of their time joined forces. Scherzer authored two no-hitters in his first season with Washington, and then the 2013 AL Cy Young Award winner received that honor in the NL in 2016 and '17. Injuries limited Strasburg throughout their time together,...
Most career leadoff home runs in MLB history Pitchers who have won the Triple Crown MLB's 3,000-strikeout club Every 30-30 season, ranked by club 40-40 club: 40 steals, 40 homers in a season Ruth tops 2-homer games list Every member of the 400-HR club Hafner, Mattingly ...
Over the past three seasons, Sale has 715 strikeouts and only 504 hits allowed in 609⅓ innings, and for his career, he has an adjusted ERA+ of 135 -- the same as Randy Johnson and Christy Mathewson, two of the best pitchers in history. Sale joins a rotation that includes reigning...
While some big league players hit the ground running at a young age, others take years to reach their potential, grinding away until something finally clicks. The players below fit into the latter category. Each had less than 10.0 career Wins Above Repla
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 2022 All-Star Clayton Kershaw. Jo...
Of all of these pitchers, you know something about the talent. What they threw, what they did, how they did it, how long they did it. With Maddux, the numbers put him in the conversation for No. 1 all time. What they don't tell you is how beautiful it was to watch him work...
By 1919, baseball was embroiled in a debate that sounds a lot like the one we're having today. Pitchers had become too dominant, with the ability to make the ball do unnatural things in a way that changed the game. They had many other advantages back then -- namely, roomy ...
A product of the Pennsylvania coal mines and a masterful purveyor of the spitball, Coveleski is one of only nine pitchers to win three games in a single World Series -- and he was dominant in all of them. Coveleski powered Cleveland to wins over the Dodgers in Games 1, 4 and 7, goi...
The team's tenure in Atlanta is noted for Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's career home run record in 1974. 23 St. Louis Cardinals 23 votes Projected WAR: 3.4 WARTop Pitchers: Ryan Helsley, Giovanny Gallegos, JoJo Romero The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball franchise in St. ...