Is there any CURRENT MLB starting pitcher that can and/or will win 30 games in the regular season?
2007-07-17 03:36:38 · 15 answers · asked by pisces02 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
I think a lot of players COULD win 30 games, but they won't.
Reason #1 - 5 man rotations. In a 162 game season, that averages out to 32.4 starts a season. Winning each start would be near impossible.
Reason #2 - Pitch count. Barely any managers will allow their pitchers to get past 100 pitches nowadays. A lot of pitchers leave games with a No Decision.
Reason #3 - Too much of a team game. Even if a pitcher pitches well in 30 games, the odds of his team producing enough each of those fames is pretty slim. So many great pitchers have lost a lot of games by only 1-2 runs.
Reason #4 - Too much pressure. If someone began to come close, the pressure that would come with something that hasn't been done in 40 years would be crazy. I don't know how people would be able to handle it.
Just my opinion
2007-07-17 04:24:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. With 5-man rotations pitchers only make, at most, 35 starts per year. To have no more than 5 losses and no-decisions in a season is ridiculous. The record for wins in a 5-man rotation is Bob Welch's 27 in 1990, and that was still 3 wins (or 10%) away from 30.
2007-07-17 05:39:41 · answer #2 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be lucky to see a pitcher win 25, ever again.
There are no current pitchers to win 30. There will not be any pitcher to reach 30 wins in a season anymore. With the addition of bullpens and 5 man rotations, it's nearly impossible to win 30...considering they only make 32 to 33 starts in a season. No pitcher is going to go 30-0, and that is about what it would take.
2007-07-17 03:50:13 · answer #3 · answered by brianwerner1313 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It will never happen in this era. Pitchers don't get enough starts. Unless they got a decision in nearly every game, and that decision was a win, it can't be done the way the game is played these days. If it is ever done, that pitcher would probably have a record something like 30-2.
2007-07-17 05:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by ghouly05 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in the current format. Unless the mound is raised and we go back to four-man rotations. Bob Welch (hardly an overwhelming pitcher) got 27 wins in 1990, the most since Steve Carlton in 1972. Other than that, nobody's even done 26 since '72. Ron Guidry and Catfish Hunter are the only ones to even touch 25 since, and since Guidry's 25 in '78, only Welch, Roger Clemens, Dwight Gooden and John Smoltz -- with all their talent and hitting support, once each -- have even hit 24. And 24 is a long way from 30.
2007-07-17 03:40:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can't see one this year or in the near future, I believe with all the expantion teams in the past years that the quantity of good pitchers and other players has diminished. I am sure that there are still quality pitchers though, but the longer season is to their advantage also if they can take the wear and tear on their bodies. I just can't see it happening in the near future.
2007-07-17 16:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by mrbb1103 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Al Travers GP 1, IP 8, H 26, R 24, ER 14, ERA 15.75, BB 7, K 1 In 1912, Ty Cobb was suspended indefinitely for going into the stands and beating a fan. The rest of the Tigers went on strike. A team of replacements was hastily assembled to take their place, and Travers was the starter on that team-for-a-day. Then there was Frank Bates, who went 1-18 with a 7.24 ERA for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. He walked 105 men while striking out only 13. Granted, the Spiders went 20-134 that year, but still...
2016-05-20 01:17:24 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No current pitcher of today has or will ever win 30 games. Pitchers today are _ussies. They get a hand nail and they go the DL.
2007-07-17 03:42:16 · answer #8 · answered by mark 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Impossible today AND for the future. The non-injured workhorse starters barely get 35 starts a year. Middle relievers, situational substitutions, five man rotation. Managers are please to get to the seventh inning with a starter. Can you imagine the salary negotiations for a 30 win pitcher? Why would a team even let it happen?
2007-07-21 14:39:51 · answer #9 · answered by xkmartguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never gonna happen again -- most recent Denny McLain Detroit Tigers 1968 -- simply because there are too many specialized pitchers now. Too many relief pitchers, and above all, too many managers trying to "protect their bosses investments" and not letting anybody pitch more than 5-6 innings in a game. Not to mention too much power, the dilution of talent due to expansion (people blowing saves left and right), and so on -- there are MANY pitchers in the game now that wouldn't have been considered "good enough" in 1968. Oh yeah, just in case y'all think I'm just longing for the "good old days" -- I'm 25.
2007-07-17 03:43:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋