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Major League Baseball recognizes the player or players in each league with the most wins each season. In baseball, wins are a statistic used to evaluate pitchers. Credit for a win is given by the official scorer to the pitcher whose team takes and maintains the lead while he is the pitcher of record. If a game is tied or if the lead changes to ...
Joe McCarthy and Bobby Cox have the most 100-win seasons by a manager with six. Seven of the 30 major league franchises have never recorded a season with 100 wins. [a] Among rookie managers, seven have accomplished 100 wins in their inaugural season, with the first being Mickey Cochrane in 1934 and the last being Rocco Baldelli in 2019.
The following is a listing of pitching win and winning percentage records in Major League Baseball. All teams are considered to be members of the American or National Leagues, unless noted. Players denoted in boldface are still actively contributing to the record noted. An (r) denotes a player's rookie season.
List of Major League Baseball titles leaders; List of Major League Baseball career games started leaders; List of Major League Baseball career games played leaders; List of Major League Baseball career WAR leaders; List of Major League Baseball consecutive games played leaders; List of Major League Baseball longest winning streaks
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
At the end of each Major League Baseball season, the league leaders of various statistical categories are announced. [1] Leading either the American League or the National League in a particular category is referred to as a title. The following lists describe which players hold the most titles in a career for a particular category.
The all-time best single season record belongs to the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who posted baseball's only perfect record at 67–0 (57–0 against National Association of Base Ball Players clubs) in 1869, prior to Major League baseball. Their record stretched to 81–0 across the 1870 season before losing 8–7 in eleven innings to the ...
Record Player # Season Most wins Jim Bagby, Sr. Lefty Grove Denny McLain: 31 1920 1931 1968: Most losses Paul Derringer: 27 1933: Most strikeouts Nolan Ryan: 383 1973: Most shutouts Bob Gibson: 13 1968: Most innings pitched Wilbur Wood: 376.2 1972: Most complete games Bob Feller: 36 1946: Most hits allowed Wilbur Wood: 381 1973: Most earned ...