Rk | Player | #Matching | W | L | W-L% | ERA | GS | CG | SHO | IP | HR | BB | SO | Tm | |
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1 | Walter Johnson | 46 | Ind. Games | 36 | 8 | .818 | 0.51 | 45 | 45 | 13 | 441.1 | 1 | 92 | 513 | WSH |
2 | Camilo Pascual | 40 | Ind. Games | 27 | 11 | .711 | 1.97 | 40 | 30 | 8 | 357.0 | 15 | 113 | 448 | WSH,MIN |
3 | Johan Santana | 39 | Ind. Games | 26 | 6 | .813 | 1.93 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 289.0 | 34 | 45 | 442 | MIN |
4 | Bert Blyleven | 36 | Ind. Games | 21 | 12 | .636 | 1.68 | 36 | 24 | 5 | 306.0 | 11 | 66 | 406 | MIN |
5 | Jim Kaat | 19 | Ind. Games | 17 | 1 | .944 | 1.50 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 174.0 | 8 | 33 | 205 | MIN |
6 | Dave Boswell | 14 | Ind. Games | 12 | 1 | .923 | 2.12 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 119.0 | 12 | 32 | 157 | MIN |
7 | Frank Viola | 12 | Ind. Games | 7 | 2 | .778 | 2.23 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 93.0 | 8 | 23 | 124 | MIN |
8 | Francisco Liriano | 11 | Ind. Games | 6 | 2 | .750 | 1.48 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 79.0 | 3 | 18 | 122 | MIN |
9 | Dean Chance | 9 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.11 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 81.0 | 2 | 11 | 97 | MIN |
10 | Jose Berrios | 9 | Ind. Games | 8 | 1 | .889 | 0.53 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 67.2 | 0 | 6 | 96 | MIN |
11 | Eric Milton | 8 | Ind. Games | 7 | 1 | .875 | 1.89 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 62.0 | 4 | 8 | 88 | MIN |
Some pretty good pitchers on this list. One of the items that just jumps out at me is the fact that Walter Johnson gave up just one home run in the games that he pitched and struck out 10> while Johan Santana gave up 34 blasts during his 10> K games. Do you think that Bert Blyleven knows that Johan Santana has more 10 strikeout games in a Twins uniform then he does? If you want to see something interesting click on the Ind. Games link for Walter Johnson and check out how many of his complete games were extra inning efforts.
Completely fascinating! Love this post, both for the numbers & cool chart, but also how it underscores who were truly the all-time Twins/Senators power pitchers, and their ranking. Walter Johnson…is there any doubt he was the greatest pitcher in ML history?
Having never seen how baseball was played back then it is hard to judge but if he wasn’t the GOAT then he was certainly in their herd.