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Jake Peavy's 2007 ERA of 2.54 led all National League pitchers. [24] Johan Santana won the ERA title in his first National League season after eight years with the Minnesota Twins. Chris Carpenter had the lowest ERA in the National League in 2009. Clayton Kershaw is the first pitcher in history to lead MLB in ERA for 4 consecutive years (2011 ...
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 four-man starting rotation has given way to a five-man rotation, which gives starting pitchers fewer chances to pick up wins. [2] No pitcher reached 20 wins in a non-shortened season for the first time in 2006; this was repeated in 2009, 2017, and 2024. [9]
As a result, the pair of Cy Young southpaws, with eerily similar season totals — Sale went 18-3 with a 2.38 ERA and 225 strikeouts, while Skubal went 18-4 with a 2.39 ERA and 228 strikeouts ...
Between 2000 and 2009, the Major League leader finished each year with an average of 21. Only four pitchers expected to be active in the 2024 season have even 200 wins—Justin Verlander with 257, Zack Greinke with 225, Max Scherzer with 214, and Clayton Kershaw with 210. The next active player on the list, Gerrit Cole, ended the 2023 season ...
MLB.com's Sarah Langs notes the only other pitcher to come in below 1.00 was Fernando Valenzuela, who went on to win the 1981 Cy Young Award for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the season widely ...
The biggest one that might be in jeopardy is Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson's single-season mark for rushing yards – set in 1984, when he churned out 2,105 in 16 games while with the Los Angeles ...
Grover Cleveland Alexander led the National League in victories six times, with a single-season career-high 33 wins in 1916. [5] In the American League, two pitchers have accomplished the same feat: Walter Johnson, whose 36 wins in 1913—his first season leading the league—were a single-season career high, [6] and Bob Feller. [7]