Contract Crowdsourcing 2011-12: Relief Pitcher
We conclude (!) our contract crowdsourcing today with relief pitchers. Noah Isaacs provided a summary of the options available as part of this offseason’s class of free-agent relief pitchers.
While we’ll reserve all contract information until the end of the present series (to avoid bias), data from yesterday’s polling reveals that only 11.8% of respondents know, off the top of their respective heads, how many consecutive 200-inning seasons Mark Buehrle has pitched.
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Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
Ah yes, as 2001-2011 is in fact 11 seasons (not the 10 I believe I submitted on the form).
I also submitted 10. Why do I always gravitate to round numbers?
because of round boobies.
“yesterday’s polling reveals that only 11.8% of respondents … know how many consecutive 200-inning seasons Mark Buehrle has pitched.”
And half of them looked it up first 🙂
Ignoring any streaks interrupted by things outside of a players control, here are the longest ones I can find:
Cy Young 19
Warren Spahn 17
Gaylord Perry 15
Don Sutton 15
Greg Maddux 14
Christy Mathewson 14
Phil Niekro 14
Steve Carlton 13
Pud Galvin 13
Bobo Newsom 13
Eddie Plank 13
Jack Powell 13
Red Ruffing 13
Tom Seaver 13
Vic WIllis 13
Paul Derringer 12
Don Drysdale 12
Burleigh Grimes 12
Walter Johnson 12
Mickey Lolich 12
Kid Nichols 12
Robin Roberts 12
Mark Buehrle 11 and counting
Jim Bunning 11
Stan Coveleski 11
Hooks Dauss 11
Chick Fraser 11
Bob Friend 11
George Mullin 11
Claude Osteen 11
Charlie Radbourn 11
Mickey Welch 11
Early Wynn 11
…
A lot more than I expected to find.
Active streaks:
Buehrle 11
Haren 7
Halladay 6
Cain 5
Sabathia 5
Shields 5
Verlander 5
…
Bronson Arroyo was 1 IP away from extending his streak to 7 years
Maddux was 2/3 of an inning from having 19 straight, and then finished his career in 07 and 08 with 198 and 194 innings in those years, so he was less than one full games worth of innings from having 21 straight.