Thursday, October 11, 2007

Most Times 100+ BB Allowed in a Single Season

In 2007, three pitchers gave up 100 or more walks (two were Daniel Cabrera and Carlos Zambrano - without looking it up, can you name the last?). Since 1901, 762 individual seasons featured 100+ bases on balls allowed. Only three of these seasons have featured 200 or more walks allowed: Bob Feller's 1938 and Nolan Ryan's 1974 and 1977. I was curious about who held the record for most 100+ BB seasons in a career, so I looked it up.

The twenty-four men with five or more seasons of 100+ BB:
  1. Nolan Ryan, 11
  2. Bobo Newsom, 10
  3. Bob Feller, 9
  4. Sam McDowell, 8
  5. Early Wynn, 8
  6. Allie Reynolds, 8
  7. Hal Newhouser, 7
  8. Wes Ferrell, 7
  9. Bobby Witt, 6
  10. Mark Langston, 6
  11. Phil Niekro, 6
  12. Mike Torrez, 6
  13. Bob Lemon, 6
  14. Kirby Higbe, 6
  15. Tommy Bridges, 6
  16. Bump Hadley, 6
  17. George Mullin, 6
  18. Tommy Byrne, 5
  19. Phil Marchildon, 5
  20. Johnny Vander Meer, 5
  21. Ken Chase, 5
  22. Vern Kennedy, 5
  23. Jimmy Ring, 5
  24. Earl Moore, 5
There are six active pitchers with two or more such seasons:
  1. Russ Ortiz, 4 (most recent: 2004)
  2. Randy Johnson, 3 (1992)
  3. Carlos Zambrano, 2 (2007)
  4. Daniel Cabrera, 2 (2007)
  5. Victor Zambrano, 2 (2004)
  6. Chan Ho Park, 2 (2000)

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