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Cy Young, the all-time leader in career wins. This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this ...
This is a list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers who have accumulated the most innings pitched of all time. Cy Young is the all-time leader in innings pitched with 7,356, and the only pitcher to throw more than 7,000 innings. Pud Gavin is the only other pitcher in MLB history to throw more than 6,000 innings.
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
In Major League Baseball (MLB), records play an integral part in evaluating a player's impact on the sport. Holding a career record almost guarantees a player eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame because it represents both longevity and consistency over a long period of time. (For Japanese baseball records see Nippon Professional Baseball)
This is a list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers who have the most hit batsmen of all time. Gus Weyhing (277) [1] [2] holds the dubious record for most hit batsmen in a career. Chick Fraser (219), [3] Pink Hawley (210), [4] and Walter Johnson (205) [5] are the only other pitchers to hit 200 or more batters in their careers.
This is a list of the top 100 players in career earned run average, who have thrown at least 1,000 innings. Ed Walsh [ 1 ] [ 2 ] holds the major league earned run average record at 1.816. Addie Joss [ 3 ] (1.887) and Jim Devlin [ 4 ] (1.896) are the only other pitchers with a career earned run average under 2.000.
The following list is of the top 100 pitchers in career strikeouts in Major League Baseball. In baseball, a strikeout occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. Strikeouts are associated with dominance on the part of the pitcher and failure on the part of the batter. Nolan Ryan [1] [2] [3] has the most career ...
In 2019, Verlander became the sixth pitcher in MLB history to throw three career no-hitters, [2] and the 18th to strike out 3,000 batters. Verlander is a nine-time MLB All-Star and has led the AL in strikeouts five times, in earned run average twice, and in wins three times.