It’s remarkably difficult to write this section without just gushing over Johan Santana. The Venezuelan was in his third year as a full-time starter, and it may have been his best: he led the AL in wins, ERA, games started, innings, strikeouts, ERA+, FIP, WHIP, H/9, and K/9. ...
whoever the Blue Jays use as the pinch-hitter for Jansen will get statistical credit for the result of the at-bat no matter what. If there were two strikes, and the pinch-hitter struck out, that strikeout would be charged to Jansen, which would mean Danny Jansen caught a...
MLB teams have coveted Roki Sasaki since he broke Shohei Ohtani's Japanese high school record by reaching 101 mph with his fastball as a 17-year-old in 2019, part of a 194-pitch, 12-inning, 21-strikeout complete game in the national summer Koshien tournament. When the Chiba Lotte Marines...
Most likely 2023 award winner:Shane McClanahan was the AL's best pitcher in the first half last year, posting a 1.71 ERA and 147 strikeouts in 110⅔ innings. He faded down the stretch, then worked on his body over the offseason in hopes that that...
Sale had some good moments in 2023 and had 125 strikeouts in 102 2/3 innings. Eduardo Rodriguez, Diamondbacks The D-backs — fresh off their surprise run to the World Series in 2023 — signed the lefty on an $80 million, four-year deal during the offseason. He’ll start the season ...
hitting for a little more average and slugging, but still scoring slightly fewer runs than Towson, albeit in three fewer games. They strikeout quite a bit, which Towson does not, and walk somewhat rarely, which Towson does do well (second in the CAA coming into the weekend). So the bats...
Amazingly, they actually lead the majors in bullpen strikeout rate -- which proves that there's more to pitching than strikeouts. Milwaukee Brewers (54.7%): The Cubs and Brewers still have 13 games left against each other -- six games in 10 days in late July/early August, three games ...
1973: Nolan Ryan’s 383 strikeouts In 1973, young flamethrower Nolan Ryan took aim at Sandy Koufax’s record of 382 strikeouts in a season. Ryantopped Koufax by one Kduring his last start of the year; Ryanpitched 11 innings and struck out 16Minnesota Twins. ...
but is three years younger than Weaver is. He is also coming off a season in which he set career bests for strikeout, walk, and home-run rates. But if we use wins as an extremely simple proxy for Hall of Famability, Felix is still a good decade ...
leading him to to join Casey Stengel's Mets -- then in their fourth season -- as a player-coach. The player half of the equation ultimately consisted of four games and two starts in May 1965. In the last of those, he went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and hung up his spikes, te...