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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]
A starting pitcher is not credited with a GF for pitching a complete game. Mariano Rivera [1] [2] [3] is the all-time leader in games finished with 952. Rivera is the only pitcher in MLB history to finish more than 900 career games. Trevor Hoffman [4] and Lee Smith [5] are the only other pitchers to finish more than 800 games in their careers.
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; List of Major League Baseball career bases on balls allowed leaders
For a player to accomplish this, he would have to average 30 complete games over 25 seasons to get to 750. Between 2000 and 2009, the Major League leaders in complete games averaged eight per season, and only two pitchers in the 21st century have had 10 complete games in any season (CC Sabathia with 10 in 2008 and James Shields with 11 in 2011 ...
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)
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
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 ...
Most complete games Will White 75 1879: Lowest WHIP Hilton Smith.6176 1944: Most saves Francisco Rodríguez: 62 2008: Highest win/loss percentage Roy Face: 94.7% 1959: Most hits allowed John Coleman 772 1883: Most earned runs allowed John Coleman 291 1883: Fastest pitch thrown Aroldis Chapman: 105.8 mph 2010 [16] Fastest pitch for strikeout Ben ...