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1998 Most Common Pitchers
- Team's starters sorted by GS+CG, closers by SV+GF/3, bullpen by G-GS+GF
- (pitching WAR)
| Starting Pitchers | Bullpen | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Tm | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | Closer | #2 | #3 | #4 |
| 1 | ANA (85-77, 26.16 dWAR) | C.Finley (7.20) | O.Olivares (3.87) | S.Sparks (3.07) | K.Hill (1.67) | J.Dickson (0.13) | T.Percival (1.53) | S.Hasegawa (3.07) | R.DeLucia (1.23) | P.Harris (0.73) |
| 2 | ARI (65-97, 4.81 dWAR) | A.Benes (3.08) | B.Anderson (1.46) | O.Daal (4.20) | W.Blair (-0.21) | A.Telemaco (0.91) | G.Olson (1.37) | F.Rodriguez (-0.70) | C.Sodowsky (-1.25) | A.Embree (0.13) |
| 3 | ATL (106-56, 18.59 dWAR) | G.Maddux (6.55) | T.Glavine (6.14) | D.Neagle (2.38) | K.Millwood (0.80) | J.Smoltz (3.32) | K.Ligtenberg (1.29) | J.Rocker (1.14) | D.Martinez (-0.99) | M.Cather (-0.10) |
| 4 | BAL (79-83, 15.42 dWAR) | S.Erickson (4.33) | M.Mussina (4.99) | D.Drabek (-1.43) | S.Ponson (0.91) | J.Key (1.27) | A.Benitez (1.23) | J.Orosco (1.48) | A.Mills (1.51) | A.Rhodes (1.71) |
| 5 | BOS (92-70, 16.88 dWAR) | P.Martinez (7.26) | T.Wakefield (1.52) | B.Saberhagen (2.91) | S.Avery (0.22) | D.Lowe (0.66) | T.Gordon (2.56) | J.Corsi (1.53) | D.Eckersley (0.24) | J.Wasdin (0.13) |
| 6 | CHC (90-73, 13.07 dWAR) | K.Tapani (2.12) | M.Clark (1.85) | S.Trachsel (2.91) | K.Wood (3.86) | G.Gonzalez (-0.25) | R.Beck (1.57) | T.Mulholland (1.82) | T.Adams (0.16) | M.Pisciotta (0.36) |
| 7 | CHW (80-82, 1.55 dWAR) | M.Sirotka (0.35) | J.Navarro (-1.70) | J.Baldwin (0.10) | J.Parque (0.29) | S.Eyre (-0.48) | B.Simas (1.38) | K.Foulke (0.77) | C.Castillo (-0.05) | B.Howry (1.48) |
| 8 | CIN (77-85, 11.60 dWAR) | B.Tomko (1.44) | P.Harnisch (5.12) | M.Remlinger (0.59) | S.Parris (1.67) | S.Winchester (-0.77) | J.Shaw (2.36) | D.Graves (1.34) | G.White (1.05) | S.Sullivan (-0.40) |
| 9 | CLE (89-73, 17.84 dWAR) | B.Colon (4.35) | C.Nagy (0.30) | J.Wright (1.98) | D.Burba (3.67) | D.Gooden (2.65) | M.Jackson (3.80) | P.Assenmacher (0.74) | J.Mesa (-0.49) | P.Shuey (1.29) |
| 10 | COL (77-85, 15.86 dWAR) | D.Kile (2.20) | J.Wright (0.20) | P.Astacio (-0.71) | J.Thomson (2.69) | B.Jones (1.50) | J.Dipoto (1.77) | C.McElroy (2.96) | D.Veres (2.72) | C.Leskanic (1.20) |
| 11 | DET (65-97, 6.51 dWAR) | J.Thompson (2.93) | B.Moehler (4.19) | S.Greisinger (0.47) | F.Castillo (-1.49) | B.Florie (0.42) | T.Jones (-0.25) | S.Runyan (0.88) | D.Brocail (1.45) | D.Bochtler (-0.54) |
| 12 | FLA (54-108, -6.60 dWAR) | L.Hernandez (0.63) | B.Meadows (-0.29) | J.Sanchez (0.71) | A.Larkin (-3.17) | K.Ojala (0.10) | A.Alfonseca (0.05) | V.Darensbourg (1.04) | M.Mantei (1.21) | J.Powell (-0.07) |
| 13 | HOU (102-60, 24.53 dWAR) | S.Reynolds (3.67) | J.Lima (3.88) | M.Hampton (3.44) | S.Bergman (2.27) | P.Schourek (0.48) | B.Wagner (1.65) | D.Henry (1.58) | M.Magnante (-0.09) | C.Nitkowski (0.54) |
| 14 | KCR (72-89, 8.49 dWAR) | T.Belcher (3.31) | P.Rapp (1.61) | J.Rosado (1.61) | G.Rusch (0.51) | H.Pichardo (0.28) | J.Montgomery (-0.11) | S.Service (1.79) | M.Whisenant (0.04) | B.Bevil (-0.28) |
| 15 | LAD (83-79, 19.34 dWAR) | C.Park (3.08) | I.Valdez (2.38) | D.Dreifort (2.72) | D.Mlicki (1.10) | R.Martinez (2.11) | J.Shaw (0.95) | S.Radinsky (1.74) | A.Osuna (1.07) | M.Guthrie (0.39) |
| 16 | MIL (74-88, 4.00 dWAR) | S.Karl (1.30) | S.Woodard (1.59) | J.Juden (-0.78) | C.Eldred (-0.37) | B.Woodall (0.20) | B.Wickman (0.63) | M.Myers (0.95) | D.Jones (-0.35) | A.Reyes (0.53) |
| 17 | MIN (70-92, 27.36 dWAR) | B.Radke (5.25) | L.Hawkins (2.14) | E.Milton (2.00) | B.Tewksbury (3.27) | M.Morgan (3.68) | R.Aguilera (2.06) | M.Trombley (2.83) | E.Guardado (1.20) | H.Carrasco (1.50) |
| 18 | MON (65-97, 3.84 dWAR) | J.Vazquez (-1.78) | D.Hermanson (2.93) | C.Perez (1.66) | C.Pavano (0.78) | M.Batista (1.10) | U.Urbina (3.16) | A.Telford (0.25) | S.Kline (1.27) | S.Bennett (-1.22) |
| 19 | NYM (88-74, 21.87 dWAR) | R.Reed (4.51) | A.Leiter (6.74) | B.Jones (2.37) | M.Yoshii (2.44) | H.Nomo (0.47) | J.Franco (0.72) | D.Cook (1.96) | T.Wendell (1.83) | M.Rojas (-0.88) |
| 20 | NYY (114-48, 23.44 dWAR) | D.Wells (4.82) | A.Pettitte (2.38) | D.Cone (3.95) | H.Irabu (2.63) | O.Hernandez (3.58) | M.Rivera (2.81) | M.Stanton (-1.01) | J.Nelson (0.57) | G.Lloyd (1.12) |
| 21 | OAK (74-88, 14.05 dWAR) | K.Rogers (7.52) | T.Candiotti (1.95) | J.Haynes (1.51) | M.Oquist (0.01) | B.Stein (-0.72) | B.Taylor (1.06) | B.Groom (0.87) | T.Mathews (0.31) | M.Mohler (0.19) |
| 22 | PHI (75-87, 5.57 dWAR) | C.Schilling (6.16) | M.Portugal (0.93) | T.Green (-0.15) | C.Loewer (-0.94) | M.Beech (-0.70) | M.Leiter (1.34) | J.Spradlin (1.06) | W.Gomes (0.10) | R.Bottalico (-0.77) |
| 23 | PIT (69-93, 19.45 dWAR) | F.Cordova (5.46) | J.Schmidt (3.34) | J.Lieber (1.51) | C.Peters (3.18) | J.Silva (1.01) | R.Loiselle (0.48) | R.Rincon (0.67) | J.Christiansen (1.73) | J.Martinez (-0.53) |
| 24 | SDP (98-64, 25.39 dWAR) | K.Brown (8.57) | A.Ashby (4.74) | J.Hamilton (1.86) | S.Hitchcock (2.72) | M.Langston (-0.18) | T.Hoffman (4.11) | D.Miceli (1.44) | B.Boehringer (0.36) | D.Wall (2.17) |
| 25 | SEA (76-85, 9.07 dWAR) | J.Fassero (4.06) | J.Moyer (5.55) | K.Cloude (-0.86) | R.Johnson (1.38) | B.Swift (-0.43) | M.Timlin (2.47) | B.Ayala (-2.14) | H.Slocumb (0.12) | P.Spoljaric (-1.25) |
| 26 | SFG (89-74, 9.69 dWAR) | M.Gardner (1.56) | O.Hershiser (1.22) | K.Rueter (0.92) | S.Estes (-0.26) | D.Darwin (-1.14) | R.Nen (3.38) | J.Johnstone (1.42) | R.Rodriguez (0.71) | J.Tavarez (0.35) |
| 27 | STL (83-79, 8.56 dWAR) | K.Mercker (0.13) | T.Stottlemyre (2.41) | M.Morris (3.54) | K.Bottenfield (0.88) | D.Osborne (0.69) | J.Brantley (0.02) | J.Frascatore (0.45) | L.Painter (0.30) | J.Acevedo (2.99) |
| 28 | TBD (63-99, 14.51 dWAR) | R.Arrojo (4.11) | T.Saunders (3.06) | W.Alvarez (1.25) | J.Santana (1.43) | D.Springer (-0.30) | R.Hernandez (0.76) | J.Mecir (1.90) | E.Yan (0.86) | A.Lopez (1.50) |
| 29 | TEX (88-74, 9.58 dWAR) | R.Helling (3.69) | A.Sele (2.88) | J.Burkett (0.40) | D.Oliver (-1.07) | E.Loaiza (-0.24) | J.Wetteland (2.70) | E.Gunderson (-0.05) | T.Crabtree (1.11) | D.Patterson (0.69) |
| 30 | TOR (88-74, 19.71 dWAR) | R.Clemens (8.13) | W.Williams (2.59) | P.Hentgen (0.80) | C.Carpenter (1.93) | J.Guzman (1.40) | R.Myers (0.44) | P.Quantrill (2.79) | D.Plesac (0.92) | B.Risley (-0.33) |
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