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300-win club. Cy Young is the all-time leader in wins. In Major League Baseball, the 300-win club is the group of pitchers who have won 300 or more games. Twenty-four pitchers have reached this milestone. This list does not include Bobby Mathews who won 297 in the major leagues plus several more in 1869 and 1870 before the major leagues were ...
Cliff Lee captured the Cy Young Award in 2008 in addition to winning 22 games. Félix Hernández won 19 games in 2009, one of three pitchers to do so. CC Sabathia started Game 1 of the 2009 World Series after winning 19 games for the Yankees that season. Justin Verlander also led the American League in strikeouts and innings pitched in 2009.
League leader in wins, three different teams. 0.650 win–loss percentage, career. 0.875 winning percentage, season. Notes. References. List of Major League Baseball wins records. 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 ...
Dennis Dale McLain (born March 29, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player. [ 1 ] He played for ten seasons in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher, most prominently as a member of the Detroit Tigers. In 1968, McLain became the last Major League Baseball pitcher to win 30 or more games during a season (with a record ...
Pitched a no-hitter on June 18, 2014. Clayton Edward Kershaw (born March 19, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). A left-handed starting pitcher, Kershaw has spent his entire MLB career with the Dodgers since debuting in 2008. He is a ten-time All-Star, three-time ...
Cy Young [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] holds the MLB win record with 511; Walter Johnson [ 4 ] is second with 417. Young and Johnson are the only players to earn 400 or more wins. Among pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 live-ball era, Warren Spahn [ 5 ] has the most wins with 363. Only 24 pitchers have accumulated 300 or more wins in their ...
Vote. 81.6% (fifth ballot) Donald Howard Sutton (April 2, 1945 – January 19, 2021) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sutton won a total of 324 games, pitched 58 shutouts including five one-hitters and ten two-hitters, and led the National ...
Stephen James Strasburg (/ ˈstrɑːsbɜːrɡ /; [ 1 ][ 2 ] born July 20, 1988) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who spent his entire 13-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Washington Nationals. Strasburg was selected by Washington with the first overall pick in the 2009 MLB draft. He was a three-time All-Star.