Do you think we will ever see a pitcher with 25 or 30 wins again in Major League baseball?

Answer 1

No, pitchers only go about 35 games at most. Old pitchers would get over 40 decisions regularly because they pitched more than every 5 games. Most pitchers these days don't even get 30 decisions. The most you will see is low/mid 20s, and that will be a for sure Cy Young winner.

25 wins is possible, maybe once every 3-5 years a pitcher will come up with those kind of numbers. Since most pitchers only end up with around 30 decisions, 25 is pretty hard.

30 is close to impossilbe, unless there is a pitcher who has a ton of endurance and can pitch up to 40 games. Even with that it would still be hard, you would always get too many no decisions, plus you still have to win nearly every game. Very unlikely.

Answer 2

I really doubt it. Most pitchers don't start more then 30-35 games a year anymore. (Although maybe if that kid in the minors that pitches with both arms could take 2 spots in the rotation - wouldn't that be cool?) I figure that even the best pitchers are going to have 3 or 4 no decisions, and probably a few games that they pitch well, but take the loss. Toss in the inevitable few bad days (and every pitcher has them) and you're down to about 20-22 wins already. Only way I could see it happening if you had a pitcher that won a few games out of the pen - really long games where maybe a starter comes in to get one out, and gets lucky by having his team win it in the bottom of that inning. 25 game winners have, unfortunately, gone the same way that 300 inning pitchers with 15 -20 complete games a season have gone. Just a victim of the 5 man rotation.

Answer 3

We can very well see a 25 game winner, but a 30 game
winner will be very difficult. The game has changed a lot
since the days of the 30+ game winners. A pitcher today
cannot throw inside that much, and the batters are on top
of the plate. The last time a major league pitcher won 30
games was 1968 when Denny McClain did it for the Detroit
Tigers. The pitchers threw inside in those days.........

Answer 4

25, maybe. 30, not likely -- it would take a perfect convergence of circumstances.

League-leading starters today get 35, maybe 36 (on rare occasions, 37) starts in the season. Consider what has to happen for him to get a W: pitch at least five, leave with the lead, so teammates have to score runs (ENOUGH runs), and the bullpen has not to blow it. And this has to happen 30 out of 35-37 times (last men to get 36: Maddux and Halliday in 2003. Last to get 37: Maddux in '91). Plus he has to stay healthy (avoid the DL), and there's always the chance a season will go short if the CBA is about to expire (which, thankfully, we've avoided these last two times). 30 wins is just asking too, too much of not only today's ace starter but his entire team behind him.

Which also explains why Wins is such a lousy way to evaluate a pitcher -- there is way too much of the game utterly out of his control that has to go right to get the W. Fortunately we have a host of other, insightful metrics, but wins are hard to shake out of the media's and public's consciousnesses.

25, maybe.
30, realistically no.

Answer 5

Probably not since they really dont seem to pitch as much as they used to. It seems that if a pitcher shows a little weariness, he gets put on the DL for 15 days so misses 2 starts there. If that happens twice in a season, there is no way to reach 25 wins. If Beckett stays rolling, he will probably reach 22 but I dont see much more than that.

Answer 6

I doubt it. Starters rarley start over 33 games, and even aces don't pitch deep into games to get 30+ decisions. Case in point: Dodger's ace Brad Penny has never completed a game. He co-led the NL in wins with 16. 16!!! Carlton used to have 16 at the all-star break.

And there are way too many journeyman relievers who cant hold leads. It would have to be a dream season where someone goes 25-2.

Answer 7

There's been some talk of going back to 4 man rotations, a few time have even tried it in recent years. If that becomes more popular, then a healthy starter would get about 40 starts in a season. With luck they might get 35 decisions, so I suppose 30-5 is possible.

Answer 8

well schilling did win 24 in 2000 i think? or was it 02? one of them

but no we won't ever see a 30 game winner again

Answer 9

If they would raise the pitcher's mound two inches you would see it...............Bob Gibson was so effective (and a few others) that they raised it to give batters a chance.

Answer 10

i think no because the batters are much better then the old times.and the pitchers rest more then back then.