Set by Richard “night train” lane at 14 picks during his rookie season in 1952. With modern rules and schemes I just don’t think anyone ever gets close.
Set by Richard “night train” lane at 14 picks during his rookie season in 1952. With modern rules and schemes I just don’t think anyone ever gets close.
Cy Young’s Complete Game record in Baseball is even crazier.
Young threw 749 Complete Games. The active leader in Complete Games is 40 year old Justin Verlander, who has 26
Yeah, that record is hard to even comprehend. Verlanders 26 doesn’t even put him in the Top 1,000 of all time. I wouldn’t be shocked if the MLB as a whole doesn’t throw 749 Complete Games over the next 50 years.
My Grandfather played in the 20’s, and would tell me about how it was completely normal for pitchers to start and finish both games of a double-header.
He could barely lift his arm above his shoulder by the time he was in his 60’s, for what it’s worth.
I miss starters pitching the whole game, not just 5 innings
Excuse me, what?
That’s insane. They should just like name an award after him or something.
Baseball used to just have pitchers throw the whole game. The record for complete games in a season is 75. Starting pitchers start 32 or 33 games a season these days.
This is truly the only breakable record in sports.
Pitchers back then would throw both games of a double-header.
It was unheard of for a pitcher to not pitch an entire game.
Cy Young pitched 7,356 innings. The active leader is 39 year old Zack Grienke with 3389.
To put the sheer number of innings Cy Young pitched into perspective:
Nolan Ryan was a starting pitcher for 27 years. He is the All-time Strikeout leader. He started 773 games.
If Nolan Ryan had pitched a complete game in every single game of his career, he would still have pitched 400 less innings than Cy Young.
Dude, his Wins record is equally incredible.
511 wins.
The active leaders are 40 and 39 years old…with 257 and 225 Wins.