{"id":16360,"date":"2023-12-09T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballroundtable.com\/?p=16360"},"modified":"2024-01-25T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:00:08","slug":"baseball-roundtable-musings-on-20-win-seasons-stats-and-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballroundtable.com\/baseball-roundtable-musings-on-20-win-seasons-stats-and-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Roundtable Musings on 20-Win Seasons … Stats and Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Baseball Roundtable was recently reflecting on that fact that the Braves\u2019 righty Spencer Strider<\/strong> was MLB\u2019s only 2023 20-game winner, which led me to the fact that MLB has had just one twenty-game winner in each of the past three seasons. In the vein of\u00a0 \u201cIn Baseball Roundtable one thing always seem to lead to another<\/em>,\u201d this led me to the fact that only five pitchers (one of them being Strider) have recorded 20 or more wins in a season in which they pitched fewer than 190 innings:<\/p>\n Anyway, that sent me down a research rabbit hole, searching out stats related to 20+ win seasons that interested me (and I hope some of them interest you, as fans and readers).<\/p>\n Of course, one thing led to another and those low inning totals led me to look at complete-game totals.\u00a0 As the chart below snows. Strider joined a (rather impressive) recent and growing list of pitchers to record twenty wins in a season without throwing a single complete game.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n _____________________________________<\/p>\n BEFORE WE RETURN TO OUR REGULAR PRORAMMING\/POSTING …<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There is still time to cast your vote(s) in the Baseball Roundtable (unofficial) 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame Fan Balloting (and qualify for the prize drawing).\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to go directly to the ballot.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> for a post taking a look at the careers of the players on the ballot.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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