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How many 20-game winners were there in the Major Leagues in the last 5 years? Can you name them?

In the last 40 years, only one team has ever boasted FOUR 20-game winners on their staff in the same season.

1) Which team was it?

2) What year did this happen?

3) Who were the four pitchers?

4) Did this team make it to the World Series?


VBR, br

Pretty sure it was the '71 (?) Orioles...Dobson, Cuellar, McNally, and Palmer. They beat the Pirates...?

OK quick...whats gloves did those pitchers wear?

MVALZ wrote:Pretty sure it was the '71 (?) Orioles...Dobson, Cuellar, McNally, and Palmer. They beat the Pirates...?

OK quick...whats gloves did those pitchers wear?

what is...tan one's???

MVALZ,
Yes sir, you've got it right. Congrats. Just imagine what that pitching staff could do in this modern era? I think it's funny how winning 20 games has gone from being the norm 10-15 years ago to being a rarity today. Juan Marichal (SF Giants Ace), spoke in an interview about how he would pitch sometimes 3 games in a single week (all 9 innings!), plus pitching batting practice AND side sessions. Pitchers today get to 100 pitches, and we yank them out of the game. Yet we let Little League pitchers throw 85 pitches in a game before they have to come off of the mound, and those kids are 11-12 years old! So the conclusion that we get from this is that a fully grown man, who has played baseball his whole life, can only throw 100 pitches before he has to "shut it down", come on.

br

except for roy halladay... he seems inhuman by todays standards...

Don't forget back in those days of the great Orioles pitching staff, there were those 4 guys, meaning a 4 man rotation. Which was the norm at the time. With NO pitch count after a THREE day rest. Think about it.