Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Leaders & Records > Active Complete Games
Active Leaders & Records for Complete Games
Baseball Leaders & Baseball Records:
Single-Season
Career
Active
Progressive
Year-by-Year Top-Tens
Yearly League
+ - Indicates Hall of Famer. Bold indicates active player.
Statistic Description: Complete Game
| Rank | Player (yrs, age) | Complete Games | Throws |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Roy Halladay (16, 36) | 67 | R |
| 2. | CC Sabathia (13, 32) | 35 | L |
| 3. | Chris Carpenter (15, 38) | 33 | R |
| Bartolo Colon (16, 40) | 33 | R | |
| 5. | Mark Buehrle (14, 34) | 28 | L |
| 6. | Cliff Lee (12, 34) | 26 | L |
| 7. | Tim Hudson (15, 37) | 25 | R |
| Andy Pettitte (18, 41) | 25 | L | |
| 9. | Felix Hernandez (9, 27) | 23 | R |
| 10. | A.J. Burnett (15, 36) | 22 | R |
| 11. | James Shields (8, 31) | 20 | R |
| Justin Verlander (9, 30) | 20 | R | |
| 13. | Dan Haren (11, 32) | 16 | R |
| 14. | Matt Cain (9, 28) | 15 | R |
| Johan Santana (12, 34) | 15 | L | |
| Jake Westbrook (13, 35) | 15 | R | |
| 17. | John Lackey (11, 34) | 14 | R |
| Esteban Loaiza (14, 41) | 14 | R | |
| Ervin Santana (9, 30) | 14 | R | |
| 20. | Bronson Arroyo (14, 36) | 13 | R |
| Aaron Harang (12, 35) | 13 | R | |
| Jake Peavy (12, 32) | 13 | R | |
| Adam Wainwright (8, 31) | 13 | R | |
| 24. | Aaron Cook (11, 34) | 12 | R |
| Freddy Garcia (15, 36) | 12 | R | |
| Zack Greinke (10, 29) | 12 | R | |
| Cole Hamels (8, 29) | 12 | L | |
| Brett Myers (12, 32) | 12 | R | |
| Barry Zito (14, 35) | 12 | L | |
| 30. | Miguel Batista (18, 42) | 11 | R |
| Josh Beckett (13, 33) | 11 | R | |
| Ryan Dempster (16, 36) | 11 | R | |
| Jon Garland (13, 33) | 11 | R | |
| Darren Oliver (20, 42) | 11 | L | |
| Jered Weaver (8, 30) | 11 | R | |
| 36. | Kelvim Escobar (12, 37) | 10 | R |
| Jon Lester (8, 29) | 10 | L | |
| Derek Lowe (17, 40) | 10 | R | |
| Ramon Ortiz (12, 40) | 10 | R | |
| 40. | R.A. Dickey (11, 38) | 9 | R |
| Clayton Kershaw (6, 25) | 9 | L | |
| Ricky Nolasco (8, 30) | 9 | R | |
| Jason Vargas (8, 30) | 9 | L | |
| 44. | Joe Blanton (10, 32) | 8 | R |
| Matt Garza (7, 29) | 8 | R | |
| Ubaldo Jimenez (8, 29) | 8 | R | |
| Tim Lincecum (7, 29) | 8 | R | |
| Kyle Lohse (13, 34) | 8 | R | |
| Jason Marquis (14, 34) | 8 | R | |
| Ricky Romero (5, 28) | 8 | L | |
| Rank | Player (yrs, age) | Complete Games | Throws |
| Joe Saunders (9, 32) | 8 | L | |
| 52. | Roberto Hernandez (8, 32) | 7 | R |
| Matt Harrison (6, 27) | 7 | L | |
| Anibal Sanchez (8, 29) | 7 | R | |
| 55. | Jeremy Bonderman (8, 30) | 6 | R |
| Dave Bush (9, 33) | 6 | R | |
| Johnny Cueto (6, 27) | 6 | R | |
| Zach Duke (9, 30) | 6 | L | |
| Hiroki Kuroda (6, 38) | 6 | R | |
| Paul Maholm (9, 31) | 6 | L | |
| Justin Masterson (6, 28) | 6 | R | |
| Brandon McCarthy (8, 29) | 6 | R | |
| C.J. Wilson (9, 32) | 6 | L | |
| Jamey Wright (18, 38) | 6 | R | |
| 65. | Clay Buchholz (7, 28) | 5 | R |
| Jose Contreras (11, 41) | 5 | R | |
| Doug Fister (5, 29) | 5 | R | |
| Gavin Floyd (10, 30) | 5 | R | |
| Jeremy Guthrie (10, 34) | 5 | R | |
| Mark Hendrickson (10, 39) | 5 | L | |
| Luke Hochevar (7, 29) | 5 | R | |
| Derek Holland (5, 26) | 5 | L | |
| Edwin Jackson (11, 29) | 5 | R | |
| Colby Lewis (8, 33) | 5 | R | |
| Ted Lilly (15, 37) | 5 | L | |
| Rodrigo Lopez (11, 37) | 5 | R | |
| Mark Prior (5, 32) | 5 | R | |
| 78. | Homer Bailey (7, 27) | 4 | R |
| Scott Baker (7, 31) | 4 | R | |
| Chad Billingsley (8, 28) | 4 | R | |
| Chris Capuano (9, 34) | 4 | L | |
| Bruce Chen (15, 36) | 4 | L | |
| John Danks (6, 28) | 4 | L | |
| Yovani Gallardo (7, 27) | 4 | R | |
| J.A. Happ (7, 30) | 4 | L | |
| Josh Johnson (9, 29) | 4 | R | |
| Brandon Morrow (7, 28) | 4 | R | |
| Jeff Niemann (5, 30) | 4 | R | |
| Mike Pelfrey (8, 29) | 4 | R | |
| David Price (6, 27) | 4 | L | |
| Nate Robertson (9, 35) | 4 | L | |
| Chien-Ming Wang (7, 33) | 4 | R | |
| 93. | Trevor Cahill (5, 25) | 3 | R |
| Chad Durbin (14, 35) | 3 | R | |
| Jeff Francis (9, 32) | 3 | L | |
| Jaime Garcia (5, 26) | 3 | L | |
| Gio Gonzalez (6, 27) | 3 | L | |
| Daniel Hudson (4, 26) | 3 | R | |
| Kyle Kendrick (7, 28) | 3 | R | |
| Mat Latos (5, 25) | 3 | R | |
| Rank | Player (yrs, age) | Complete Games | Throws |
| Dustin McGowan (5, 31) | 3 | R | |
| Charlie Morton (5, 29) | 3 | R | |
| Oliver Perez (11, 31) | 3 | L | |
| Clayton Richard (6, 29) | 3 | L | |
| Kevin Slowey (6, 29) | 3 | R | |
| Chris Volstad (6, 26) | 3 | R | |
| Kip Wells (12, 36) | 3 | R | |
| Jerome Williams (8, 31) | 3 | R | |
| Jordan Zimmermann (5, 27) | 3 | R |
See Front Page for time of last update
Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information
both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of
charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.
Win
Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and
co-author of The
Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.
Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations
provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.
Full-year
historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary
Gillette of 24-7
Baseball.
Some
defensive statistics Copyright BIS, 2010-2011 
.
.Player head
shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only
selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we
believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will
quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the
case.Please let us know if you are aware of any
such images on this site.
Play Index
Loading Photos from the George Grantham
Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.
A Sports Reference Site:
About Baseball Reference |
Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data
Partner of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties.