No strikeouts, no walks in 2011
Posted by Andy on July 20, 2011
Most innings pitched in 2011 without registering a strikeout:
| Rk | Player | IP | SO | Tm | G | GS | GF | H | R | ER | BB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanekoa Texeira | 6.1 | 0 | KCR | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2.84 | 145 |
| 2 | Mason Tobin | 5.1 | 0 | TEX | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6.75 | 66 |
| 3 | Daryl Thompson | 3.0 | 0 | CIN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15.00 | 29 |
| 4 | Bruce Billings | 2.0 | 0 | COL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4.50 | 118 |
| 5 | Danny Herrera | 1.2 | 0 | MIL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 21.60 | 22 |
| 6 | Scott Kazmir | 1.2 | 0 | LAA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 27.00 | 17 |
Most innings pitched in 2011 without issuing a walk:
| Rk | Player | IP | BB | Tm | G | GS | H | R | ER | SO | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Leroux | 5.2 | 0 | PIT | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | David Carpenter | 4.1 | 0 | HOU | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | Dale Thayer | 4.0 | 0 | NYM | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4.50 | 92 |
| 4 | Jeff Marquez | 4.0 | 0 | NYY | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2.25 | 196 |
| 5 | Bruce Billings | 2.0 | 0 | COL | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4.50 | 118 |
| 6 | Robbie Weinhardt | 1.2 | 0 | DET | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10.80 | 43 |
Anybody else realize that 5 different guys with the surname Carpenter have played MLB this year?
Drew Carpenter
Chris Carpenter
Christopher Carpenter
David Carpenter
Matt Carpenter
All pitchers, except Matt.
July 20th, 2011 at 7:45 am
The record for doing both is 34 innings in 1875 by Hugh O' Neill
The most recent 20 game winner with less than 30 SO's and 30 BB's was Slim Sallee in 1919. The other 3 were in the 1870's.
Sallee had 20 BB, 24 SO, 21 Wins in 29 Games with 227.2 innings
July 20th, 2011 at 8:27 am
But there are 10 Rodriguezes...
Alex, Fernando, Francisco (Murillo), Francisco (Jose), Henry, Ivan, Josh, Luis, Sean and Wandy.
July 20th, 2011 at 8:39 am
Fairmont, WV's own David Carpenter. Possibly the highlight, along with Hunter Pence, of the Astros' dismal 2011...
July 20th, 2011 at 8:54 am
#2, the difference is this. In MLB history there have been 11 Carpenters, with 5 playing this season, while there have been 39 Rodriguezes. On a percentage basis, that's a lot more Carpenters appearing this year.
July 20th, 2011 at 9:25 am
How about 4 Robinsons, 3 Williams in the HOF and none this year.
About David Carpenter - off to a great start. Second game came on with the bases loaded and two outs. The batter grouded out on the 2nd pitch. 1 hit in 14 AB..
July 20th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Do Jesus Flores and Jesus Guzman also count as carpenters?
July 20th, 2011 at 9:48 am
Thayer has only allowed 1 walk in 19.2 major league innings so far (spread across 3 years). He's allowed 4 homers, though. Guess he throws it down the middle of the plate.
July 20th, 2011 at 10:57 am
@4 There's only been three Vukovichs and they all played late 70s, early 80s. Two of them on the same team!
July 20th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Matt Carpenter is not a pitcher. Still a cool fact about the (non-singing) Carpenters though...
July 20th, 2011 at 11:06 am
10 Gonzalez's...plus FREDI.
July 20th, 2011 at 11:52 am
Andy,
I have a request. Randy Choate is having a remarkable season, 1.33 ERA, 26 Ks in 20.1 innings. But it's his appearances to innings ratio is what caught my eye, 45 apprearances and just 20.1 innings, less than 1/2 inning per game. We've seen this before. As a Red Sox fan I remember Mike Myers and Tony Fossas (who pitched until he was 73 I think!) doing this as well. I wondered how many times this has been, innings pitched less than 1/2 of appearances. I would bet the list would be almost all lefties. I would think you might want to limit the list to a minimum of 20 appearances.
July 20th, 2011 at 11:56 am
Ask and ye shall receive. Pitchers with at least twice as many games as innings pitched, minimum 20 games:
Generated 7/20/2011.
July 20th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Career leader in games greater than innings is Mike Stanton. I saw his only career start in 1999. 4 innings of shutout ball. The Yankees needed a spot starter. They decided to use Stanton rather than call up a player from AAA.
40 players have IP 100.
Current player Mike Gonzalez leads with an ERA+ of 142
July 20th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Correction of the 40 players with G>IP an IP> 300, 33 have an ERA+ > 100
July 20th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Box score of 5/25/11 game in which six Marlins pitchers had no walks or strikeouts. No other team so far this season has had a game with more than four 0-BB, 0-K pitcher performances.
July 20th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
@11
Mike, amazing that Randy Choate has faced only one batter in 28 of his 45 appearances. He is the ultimate LOOGY right now. And as you anticipated, not a righty in sight on Andy's list.
However, Choate's ERA+ has to be taken with a grain of salt doesn't it, because his appearances are hand-picked for him to be successful. The same for the other high ERA+ plitchers on the list.
I have mixed feelings about the statistics of a specialist pitcher like Choate. On the one hand he is effective as used, but is a roster spot really justified for such a limited hurler?
July 20th, 2011 at 7:55 pm
@2, 4, and 8. There have been 13 players named May in MLB history. Six of them (Carlos, Dave, Jerry, Lee, Milt, and Rudy) played from 1970-1973. Also, John Mayberry, Sr. and Willie Mays were active during that period. Lee Maye played until 1971.
August 1st, 2011 at 11:55 pm
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