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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 Leagues, unless noted. Players denoted in boldface are still actively contributing to the record noted. An (r) denotes a player's rookie season.
Major League Baseball recognizes the player or players in each league with the most wins each season. In baseball, wins are a statistic used to evaluate pitchers. Credit for a win is given by the official scorer to the pitcher whose team takes and maintains the lead while he is the pitcher of record. If a game is tied or if the lead changes to ...
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 careers. [6]
To put this record in further perspective, the last pitcher to win 30 games in a season was Denny McLain in 1968 and the last pitcher to win more than 25 games in a season was Bob Welch with 27 in 1990. The most wins in a season by any pitcher in the 21st century is 24, by Randy Johnson in 2002 and Justin Verlander in 2011. [13]
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
Charles Radbourn [3] holds the record for the most wins in a single-season, winning 59 games in 1884. [4] John Clarkson [5] (53 in 1885) and Guy Hecker [6] (52 in 1884) are the only other pitchers to win more than 50 games in a single-season. [7]
Record Player # Season Most wins Old Hoss Radbourn: 60 1884: Most losses John Coleman: 48 1883 Lowest E.R.A. Eugene Bremer: 0.711 1937: Most strikeouts Matt Kilroy: 513 1886: Most shutouts George Bradley Pete Alexander: 16 1876 1916: Most innings pitched Will White: 680 1879: Most complete games Will White 75 1879: Lowest WHIP Hilton Smith.6176 ...
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