Did You Know...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
, Posted by Gator Guy at 9:11 AM
There are eleven pitchers since 1954 who won at least 50% of their starts. Here they are:
Pretty heady company for Gator. I count nine pitchers who are already in the Hall or are mortal locks, and one pitcher - Roy Halladay - who's making a pretty strong case. And then there's Ron Guidry.
Spahn's figure includes just his starts from and after 1954. It is likely that many pitcher's from the pre-1954 era would make this list because pitchers completed a far higher percentage of their starts in those days and accordingly tended to have fewer no-decisions. Pitchers like Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove and Christy Matthewson would probably top this list.
The presence of Guidry, Martinez, Halladay, Mussina and Clemens is impressive because they pitched in an era when pitchers generally incurred no-decisions in more than 20% of their starts. Spahn, Gibson and Marichal, by comparison, had no-decisions in only 12%, 14% and 17% of their starts, respectively.
Randy Johnson just missed the list, winning 49.9% of his starts.Some other notables:
Seaver, 47.9%
Maddux, 47.9%
Morris, 47.6%
Schilling 47.2%
Gooden, 47.1%
Hunter, 46.6%
Carlton, 46.1%
Tiant, 45.2%
Glavine, 44.7%
UPDATE: As of May 1, 2010, here are the top 100 pitchers in terms of percentage of stars won since 1952 (clicking on the preceding link will take you to the spreadsheet at Google Docs):
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