The 1970 or '71 Orioles had four 20 game winners in one season. Does anybody think that a team could ever have five 20 game winners? NO WAY!
2007-07-05 16:52:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
All 4 pitchers on that Orioles' team pitched complete games over 75% of the time.
Even if you have 4 or 5 guys who pitched 7 innings 75% of the time, the quality of bullpens has fallen to an all-time low that a lot of starts would become saves, losses (starter or reliever) or wins by the bullpen.
Maybe if one subtracts out the steroids area and 2 20 game winners would be a respectable goal - but not more than that.
2007-07-05 17:01:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was the 1971 Orioles (Palmer, McNally, Cuellar, Dobson), and it had been done before by the 1920 White Sox (Faber, Williams, Cicotte, Kerr).
No, we won't see a team with five 20-game winners, except under one of two extreme conditions:
a. the season is lengthened to, oh, 180 games. Not bloody likely.
b. an old-timer vet having one last great season gets traded to a juggernaut team late in the year, and picks up enough Ws to give him 20 on the season to go with his four new staff teammates. That's not the classic way, not actually picking up 20 Ws with the one team, and I don't think this scenario is probable, but it is slightly plausible.
It's hard enough to find a 100-win team, but to postulate one where the bullpen doesn't blow a few here and there, or steal the Ws for themselves? If it was ever going to happen, it would have happened by now.
2007-07-06 00:19:11 · answer #2 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While it is unlikely, I still think it is possible. There are other records more unbreakable than having four 20 game winners in the same season. How about 190 RBI's in one season, or a 56 game hitting streak? Four 20 game winners in the same season is still a possibility, if you have the right pitching staff on a very good team.
2007-07-06 11:29:11 · answer #3 · answered by dwmatty19 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Five pitchers on the same team will NEVER accumulate 20 wins each.
If five pitchers consistently started every fifth game (literally), they'd accumulate 31 or 32 starts per year. 20 of them (for all five pitchers) must be wins, and that leaves room for 11 or 12 combined losses/no-decisions. Unheard of - it's simply not possible, in my mind.
Here's another record that's unbreakable. In 1894, all three outfielders for the Philadelphia Phillies had a .400+ average (Ed Delahanty and Sam Thompson batted .407 and Billy Hamilton batted .404). Any three outfielders on the same team would have to combine better than a .405 average in order to break the record, and in this day and age, nobody's reached .380 since the late 1980's and very early 1990's. Forget about it!
2007-07-06 00:07:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It won't happen in today's baseball because the relief pitchers play such a huge role. Very few complete games today. However, if teams go back to a 4 man rotations, two 20 game winners is a possibility...
2007-07-06 00:10:52 · answer #5 · answered by aaron_n_az 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Will never happen... The team would have to win OVER 100 games, and keep all 5 starting pitchers healthy long enough to win 20 games each. It's just not going to happen.
2007-07-06 00:03:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way. Not possible. To even have that happen a team would need at least 120 wins due to all those wins and no decisions by starting pitchers.
2007-07-05 23:56:52 · answer #7 · answered by NY Fan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, not five but four again is very plausible..consider the currrent red sox rotation, or better yet, the detroit tigers rotation is awesome.. they will only get better with some time. and both teams have the offense to go with it to win 103+ games...at some point..
2007-07-06 01:39:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont think so in todays enviorment. it would have to be a high payroll team to have 5 20game winners on the staff(duh) plus they would prolly win a 130+ games! no way-no how!
2007-07-05 23:58:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way, man, especially now a days, back then they used to pitch about 300 innings, now if you pitch 200 innins your a stud.
2007-07-06 05:53:36 · answer #10 · answered by Compton,CA 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋