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Cy Young is the all-time leader in complete games with 749 and the only player to complete more than 700 games. Pud Galvin is second all-time with 646 career complete games and the only other player to complete more than 600 games. No active pitcher has yet to even reach 30 career complete games. [2]
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.
Most complete games Cy Young 749 Lowest earned-run average: Ed Walsh: 1.82 Lowest walks plus hits per inning pitched: Addie Joss.968 Most saves Mariano Rivera: 652 Highest win–loss percentage Spud Chandler: 71.7% Most games Jesse Orosco: 1,252 Most consecutive scoreless innings pitched Orel Hershiser: 59 [a]
Cy Young holds the major-league record for innings pitched with 7,356 during his career. In baseball, the statistic innings pitched (IP) is the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that have been put out while the pitcher is on the pitching mound in a game. Three outs made is equal to one ...
To accomplish this record, Ryan played the most seasons (27) in MLB history, [33] as well as being both second in career innings pitched in the live-ball era, and fourth among pitchers who have completed their careers in strikeouts per nine innings. The next closest player is Randy Johnson, who has 839 fewer strikeouts at 4,875. [36]
List of Major League Baseball career innings pitched leaders; List of Major League Baseball career games started leaders; List of Major League Baseball career games finished leaders; List of Major League Baseball career complete games leaders; List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders
Rank amongst leaders in career games played. A blank field indicates a tie. Player (2025 Gs) Number of games played during the 2025 Major League Baseball season: Throws: Denotes right-handed (R) or left-handed (L) pitcher MLB: Total career games played as a pitcher in Major League Baseball * Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame: Bold
Over the course of the 20th century, complete games became less common, to the point where a modern pitcher may pitch an entire season without throwing a complete game. (In the 2024 MLB season, 0.6% of starts were complete games.) [5] To put this in perspective, as recently as the 1980s, 10–15 complete games a year by a star pitcher was not ...