Thread: Most wins in a season without starting a game?
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Old 02-15-2024, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by cgjackson222 View Post
That's a lot of wins, and 18 is indeed the most.

A couple of guys had 17 wins, and a few had 16 and so on.

https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/mos...er-in-1-season

Good use of Roy Face on your Immaculate Grid by the way.
I should have remembered both Bill Campbell's 17 from 1976 and Tom Johnson's 16 the following year, since I witnessed each of them pitch those years. Probably wiped Soup from my memory once he bolted to the hated Red Sox.
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