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Last 20-game winners for all 30 teamsby Chris JaffeAugust 20, 2009 The Department of Random Baseball Info presents: the last pitcher to win 20 games for all 30 teams. Well, it's actually only 28 as the Rockies and Rays have never had one. Before looking at the list, care to guess: - Which two teams are tied for the longest drought without a 20-gamer? - Aside from the two above, a pair of other teams have gone a quarter century without one. Who are they? - What's the only division to have all its teams produce a 20-gamer since the 1994 Strike? - What division has only one team with a 20-game winner in the last 15 years? The boring parts are the early one - it gets funner as the list goes on. Broken up by fives to make it easier to read, here they are for all teams: 2008 NYY Mike Mussina 2008 CLE Cliff Lee 2008 ARI Brandon Webb 2008 TOR Roy Halladay 2007 BOX Josh Beckett 2005 STL Chris Carpenter 2005 HOU Roy Oswalt 2005 FLO Dontrelle Willis 2005 LAA Bartolo Colon 2004 MIN Johann Santana 2003 SEA Jaime Moyer 2003 CWS Esteban Loaiza 2003 ATL Russ Ortiz 2002 OAK Barry Zito 2001 CHC Jon Leiber 1998 TEX Rick Helling 1993 SFG Bill Swift and John Burkett 1991 PIT John Smiley 1991 DET Bill Gullickson 1990 LAD Ramon Martinez 1990 NYM Frank Viola 1989 KCR Bret Saberhagen 1988 CIN Danny Jackson 1986 MIL Teddy Higuera 1984 BAL Mike Boddicker 1982 PHI Steve Carlton 1978 SDP Gaylord Perry 1978 MON Ross Grimsley. NEVER: Colorado and Tampa. The AL West is the division where all its teams have produced at least one 20-game winner since the strike. Texas has the longest drought, going back to 1998. The next best division is the AL Central, with Kansas City going back to 1989. Conversely, only the D-backs have produced a 20-game winner in the NL West since 1993. Random notes - I never would've guessed John Smiley for the Pirates, or Bill Gullickson for the Tigers. San Diego has posted only on 19-win season in the last 30 years, when Jake Peavy did it in 2007. They've only had three 20-win seasons, Perry's and two by Randy Jones. Montreal/Washington has it even worse: Ross Grimsley's big season is still the only 20-win season in franchise history. Incredibly, Steve Rogers never did it. Rogers does have the organization's only 19-win season, but that's the best he's got. Heck, the franchise only has two 18-win seasons (Gullickson, again, and Byrn Smith). Steve Carlton is the only Philly pitcher to win 20 since Chris Short did it in 1966. History instructor by day, statnerd by night, Chris Jaffe leads one of the most exciting double lives imaginable; with the exception of every other double life possible to imagine. Despite his lack of comic-book-hero-worthiness, Chris enjoys farting around with this stuff. His new book, Evaluating Baseball's Managers is available for pre-order. Chris welcomes responses to his articles via e-mail.
AndrewJ said...
No Orioles has won 20 since Boddicker in 1984? That’s astonishing—from 1968 through 1982 (except for 1981), I think they had at least one 20-win pitcher a season. Posted 08/20 at 07:13 AM
Wooden U. Lykteneau said...
Ryan - Grover Alexander, Roger Clemens, Carl Mays, and Gaylord Perry each won 20 games in a single season for three different teams. Posted 08/20 at 08:35 AM
Keith said...
AndrewJ- Nope, but Mike Mussina won 19 games like 6 times or something crazy like that. Posted 08/20 at 09:38 AM
Chris J. said...
“Ryan - Grover Alexander, Roger Clemens, Carl Mays, and Gaylord Perry each won 20 games in a single season for three different teams.” A few pitchers even had four teams they won 20 for in a season: Bobby Mathews, Tony Mullane, Jack Powell, and Joe McGinnity. Those guys all began in the 19th century, though Powell and McGinnity pitched mostly in the 20th century. Posted 08/20 at 11:27 AM
Chris J. said...
Cy Young and Claude Hendrix also won 20 with three different teams. Posted 08/20 at 12:03 PM
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“the last pitcher to win 20 games for all 30 teams. “
Talk about an awkward sentence! As even Cy Young never got to 600 wins, that is mathematically impossible.
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Thanks for the list, Chris. Now: Who has won 20 games for the most amount of teams?