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Goodbye Double Digit Winning Pitchers - A contest with a prize
Double Digit Winners are a dying breed. To qualify for a win starters must pitch 5 innings. The average start has been steadily decreasing in recent years as the number of arms in the pen have been increasing. The Brewers 10 game winner this year, Suter, comes out of the pen.
The number of ten game winners in baseball in random years are as follows: 1919...............................52............. .......over 3/team in 154 games 1956...............................48............. ........3 / team 1965...............................65............. ........3.25 / team in 162 games 1974...............................78 1983...............................85 1992...............................74 2001...............................80 2010...............................93 2015...............................70 2018...............................59............. ........less than 2 / team 2021 so far.......................54 ...................at season's end. 1.8 per team If everyone with 8 or more wins 2 games in September the final tally will be 68, but that ain't gonna happen. The first guess of the correct number of 10 or more game winners this year will win a real baseball card featuring a ten game winner. Deadline for entry is 9/12 at MN PT. |
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Good first guess
44 |
46. Thanks. Joe
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54
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39
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52
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I predict that within 30 years wins becomes a secondary stat- if it is even counted at all. Scoreboards and broadcasts will show apperences, innings and relative era. And before you call me crazy, how many of us over 40 thought we would go to a game and see OBS listed next to the players names on the Jumbotron.
Wins have never been a good stat. Even when pitchers went nine and pitched every day in the 1880’s it was a bad stat. How is giving up 15 runs and being on a team that scores 16 runs equal to pitching a shutout. When pitches went nine and pitched every four days it was a bad stat. In 1968 Luis Tiant went 21-9 with a 1.60 ERA. If you can lose 9 games and still have a season ERA of 1.60 then W/L doesn’t mean much. It’s an even worse stat today. Corbin Burnes is 8-4. He has a 2.5 ERA, a whip under 1, and basically went a month into the season before he walked anyone. He literally didn’t walk anyone for his first 55+ innings. In 2018 Burnes was worse in every stat except winning percentage when he went 7-0. Wins have and always will be meaningless and we need to except that and move on |
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48
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I can't drive 55.
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60
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50
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In honor of Pearl Harbor......'41
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51
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59, a repeat of 2018.
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50
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my guess
47...ish.
Cheers, Geno |
56
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Per my math I get 58.55, so I'll say 58 since someone else already took 59.
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45
Thanks Chad |
53
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57
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49
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I bid $1.00.
Oh, different game. Nevermind. :) |
61 seems like a good guess.:)
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52
I really want to win. So 52 it shall be.
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58
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There are some duplicate answers. Only the first one wins if correct.
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45
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only 2 more and OHTANI achieves immortality!!
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And hopefully he can stay healthy and have others like it |
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51.
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I'm a man. I'm going with 40.
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I’ll go 66
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Let’s make it an even…
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60 was taken so let’s go with 63 instead |
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I'm going to go with 34 for some strange reason.
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He is amazing this year (but as some one mentioned earlier can he do it again) and 22 steals on the season while hitting for power and pitching the way he is. Only thing currently keeping LA Angels in the news |
Sure is nice of Madden to cherry pick his starts.
Doesn't pitch him against the Yankees, but I'm sure he will against the suckjob Rangers. |
Not many numbers left so I’ll take 38
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36
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63
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I'll go against the grain with 71
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32 if no one has it already
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Peace and thanks Frank! Mike |
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