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Young Starting Pitchers Off To A Hot Start Since 1996

Posted by Steve Lombardi on July 6, 2010

In all the full-seasons since the last work stoppage in baseball, which young starting pitchers had at least 10 wins in the first half of a season? Via Play Index, here's the answer...

From 1996 to 2010, SP age 25 or younger with 10+ wins within his team's first 81 games.

Rk Player Year #Matching   W L W-L% ERA GS CG SHO SV IP H ER HR BB SO WHIP
1 Dontrelle Willis 2005 13 Ind. Games 13 0 1.000 1.47 13 5 4 0 97.2 75 16 2 17 72 0.94
2 Jon Garland 2005 13 Ind. Games 13 0 1.000 2.95 13 2 2 0 94.2 77 31 9 17 42 0.99
3 David Price 2010 11 Ind. Games 11 0 1.000 1.90 11 1 1 0 75.2 63 16 4 28 67 1.20
4 Andy Pettitte 1996 11 Ind. Games 11 0 1.000 3.15 11 1 0 0 74.1 70 26 7 28 54 1.32
5 Mark Mulder 2003 11 Ind. Games 11 0 1.000 1.82 11 4 2 0 84.0 69 17 6 16 54 1.01
6 Shawn Estes 1997 11 Ind. Games 11 0 1.000 1.75 11 3 2 0 77.1 50 15 3 37 62 1.13
7 Shawn Chacon 2003 11 Ind. Games 11 0 1.000 1.44 11 0 0 0 75.0 51 12 3 19 60 0.93
8 Mark Buehrle 2002 11 Ind. Games 11 0 1.000 2.08 11 1 0 0 78.0 58 18 5 21 40 1.01
9 Barry Zito 2002 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 1.80 10 0 0 0 70.0 47 14 8 16 60 0.90
10 Edinson Volquez 2008 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 1.71 10 0 0 0 63.1 44 12 1 33 70 1.22
11 Justin Verlander 2006 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 1.39 10 1 1 0 71.0 56 11 1 17 46 1.03
12 Kevin Slowey 2009 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 3.38 10 0 0 0 64.0 66 24 5 11 53 1.20
13 Ben Sheets 2001 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 2.17 10 1 1 0 66.1 58 16 8 17 38 1.13
14 Vicente Padilla 2002 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 1.66 10 1 1 0 70.1 48 13 3 16 47 0.91
15 Kevin Millwood 1999 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 2.62 10 0 0 0 65.1 50 19 4 19 55 1.06
16 Wade Miller 2001 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 2.32 10 1 0 0 73.2 50 19 10 21 71 0.96
17 Gil Meche 2003 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 2.91 10 1 0 0 65.0 54 21 7 24 48 1.20
18 Joe Mays 2001 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 1.88 10 1 1 0 72.0 48 15 8 14 34 0.86
19 Pedro Martinez 1997 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 1.02 10 5 2 0 79.1 45 9 4 14 92 0.74
20 Phil Hughes 2010 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 2.59 10 0 0 0 66.0 52 19 5 17 66 1.05
21 Tim Hudson 2000 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 2.54 10 0 0 0 71.0 41 20 9 24 64 0.92
22 Zack Greinke 2009 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 0.84 10 4 2 0 75.1 57 7 0 10 76 0.89
23 Clay Buchholz 2010 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 1.87 10 1 1 0 67.1 55 14 2 23 43 1.16
24 Jeremy Bonderman 2005 10 Ind. Games 10 0 1.000 2.51 10 2 0 0 75.1 62 21 8 17 59 1.05
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 7/6/2010.

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This is an interesting mix of guys who stayed good and those who did not stay good. Jeremy Bonderman, Shawn Chacon and Dontrelle Willis didn't really work out all that well, in the end. But, Andy Pettitte, Mark Buehrle and Pedro Martinez turned out just fine, didn't they?

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4 Responses to “Young Starting Pitchers Off To A Hot Start Since 1996”

  1. Jeff Says:
    July 6th, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Not a single loss in the group? really?

  2. Steve Lombardi Says:
    July 6th, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Jeff - it's just the wins that are listed - and their stats in those games that they won.

  3. Richard Says:
    July 6th, 2010 at 11:28 am

    Mark Mulder also became useless by 28

  4. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
    July 7th, 2010 at 8:39 am

    Mays had pretty well shot his career early too

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