Guess the AMAZING Statistic these 6 2019 MLB teams are currently tied with:

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Originally Posted by scooter729

My Red Sox - the defending World Champion Red Sox - have played 29 games. The team leader is wins is Marcus Walden, whom I wouldn't recognize if he was standing next to me, and I know a lot about baseball in general and this Red Sox team in particular.

Walden's 3 wins are more than Chris Sale, David Price, Rick Porcello and Nathan Eovaldi combined (2), through their combined 20 starts (and combined nearly $100M salary for 2019).

What has happened to starting pitching indeed?!?

Walden picked up Win #4 tonight, as a reliever in the third inning after a two inning starter bailed.

The nine inning starter gets a decision 99% of the time.
The eight inning starter gets a lower percentage of decisions.
The seven inning starter gets fewer than the eight inning guy.
and so forth.

As the average number of starter innings approaches five, we are already seeing more decisions for bull pen pitchers. A pitching staff will a couple of ten game winning starters will become outstanding.

There will be more and more Waldens leading their team in wins.