Untouchable record - Walter Johnson has 110 shutouts, not victories, not complete games, but 110 shutouts. Amazing! The current active leader is Clayton Kershaw with 15, hot on Walter's heels. I should look up how many active players have 110 wins.........
Only 20 active pitchers have more than 110 wins, and the only one under thirty years old is Kershaw. I will firmly state that I think the shutout record (110) is safe for the foreseeable future.
Probably forever, unless current trends shift dramatically. The rate at which a single pitcher pitches an entire game is significantly lower than in Johnson's time.
I always associate Eppa Rixey with the Phillies. He won 20 games for them once. Naturally, he got traded--good players never seemed to stick long with the Phillies in those days,
I was quite surprised that I scored just 19/31. I was guessing so many star pitchers, but they were guys who pitched for multiple teams. I have never heard of several of the names on this list, oh well. Thanks for the quiz!
As the saying goes, you usually needed to throw a shutout to get a win with a lot of those awful Senators teams, and Johnson often did!
Paul Splittorf, Jim Slaton...one All-Star Game between them but a lot of longevity with one team.
(Ryan, Jenkins, Lolich, Maddux, Glavine, Halladay, Martinez, Saberhagen, Wynn, others, no dice)