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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.