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Posted by Steve Lombardi on November 10, 2008
Here's an interesting list via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Season Finder: Pitchers, since 1996, ages 27 or younger, who have faced 1,000+ batters in a season...
From To Ages Seasons -----------------+----+----+-----+------- Livan Hernandez 1998 2001 23-26 3 C.C. Sabathia 2008 2008 27-27 1 Roy Oswalt 2005 2005 27-27 1 Mark Buehrle 2004 2004 25-25 1 Roy Halladay 2003 2003 26-26 1 Jose Lima 1999 1999 26-26 1 Carlos Perez 1998 1998 27-27 1 Mike Mussina 1996 1996 27-27 1 Pat Hentgen 1996 1996 27-27 1 Alex Fernandez 1996 1996 26-26 1 Seasons/Careers found: 10.
It appears that some young pitchers can shoulder a load and live to tell...
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This entry was posted on Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am and is filed under Season Finders. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
November 13th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Lima and Perez may have lived to tell of it, but they've been on life support
OTOH, Halladay, Oswalt, Buehrle and Mussina did fine after their early 1000-batter season.
I think only Hernandez had another season with as many batters (so far).