Next 300 game winner will be...

[etothep]

Assuming Randy Johnson gets to 300 in SF, who do you think will be next? If I had to venture a guess, I guess I'd go CC (though he seems to be due for some injuries w/ all those innings). Maybe Moyer will pitch til after he's 50? Too early to project for a guy like Hamels or Lincecum?

Curious to see what names are brought up in the discussion

[RedsoxRockies]

CC, Lincecum, and Oswalt all look like possibilities

[asianinvasion]

It would be nice to see Johnson get 300 in Seattle. Hes coming in late May. I could see Moyer pitching a few more years. He needs to average around 11 wins til hes 50 which could be done. After that, it would be guys like Halladay and Oswalt. Both would have to average 17 wins a year for 10 years though. Mark Buehrle has a chance, hes only 29 and is 10 wins behind Oswalt and Halladay. Plus hes a lefty so he will pitch for ever.
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[CatKnight]

The day of the 300 winner has almost passed.

Assuming each pitcher plays until he's 41...not guaranteed by any means, we have, in order of likelihood (to me):

Johnson: N/A. At age 44 he's over my threshold, but he only needs 5 more. Probable.

Sabathia: 13.07 W/yr. I'd say he has a decent shot, as he's exceeded this rate up until now for poorer quality teams...but I also think he's going to be injury prone in his later career. Has a shot though.

Buehrle: 14.83/yr. Hasn't held this rate to date, and isn't going to get any better. He should do well if he stays injury free, but prolly not.

Halladay: 16.9/yr. Even if we ignore his first season, he's nowhere near this rate for his career. He's peaked late, but I don't see him keeping it up.

Oswalt: 15.54/yr. Like CC, he's beaten this rate to date..but it looks like he may have already peaked.

Lincenum: 16.18/yr. Uhm..are we talking about the same guy? 2 years with the Giants, 25 lifetime wins? Get back to me when he has 100 and we'll talk again.

Moyer: N/A. Well over my threshold (45) and needs 54 wins. Not happening.

[HoustonGM]

Predicting this is, frankly, folly.

[etothep]

Predicting this is, frankly, folly.

HoustonGM, where anti-fun lives

[cartman00000001]

I could see Moyer pitching a few more years. He needs to average around 11 wins til hes 50 which could be done.

I am really starting to think some people don't know about baseball here.

[RedsoxRockies]

Houston, you can be incredibly hypocritical. You tell people not to go into threads about subjects they do not like or think are stupid and say negative things about them, and yet you do it ALL THE TIME.

[HoustonGM]

Houston, you can be incredibly hypocritical. You tell people not to go into threads about subjects they do not like or think are stupid and say negative things about them, and yet you do it ALL THE TIME.

Um, I said that I think predicting the next 300 game winner is folly. I never predict things so far in advance like this. I never said it makes you stupid to do it. I never said you can't do it. All I said is I won't do it because I think it's folly.

[asianinvasion]

I am really starting to think some people don't know about baseball here.

Moyer is amazing...I bet he can pitch til hes 50. He is already 46.

[cartman00000001]

Moyer is amazing...I bet he can pitch til hes 50. He is already 46.

but you have to ask yourself "has it happened, EVER"? Yes I know there is a first for everything, but geesh. AND thinking averaging 11 wins!! No way, no how.

[dps]

but you have to ask yourself "has it happened, EVER"? Yes I know there is a first for everything, but geesh. AND thinking averaging 11 wins!! No way, no how.

Given that he has 54 wins in the last 4 seasons, I find in a bit difficult to argue that he can't win 54 more in the next 5. Has it ever been done before? No, but then I don't think that any MLB pitcher has ever racked up 54 in his age 42 thru age 45 seasons before either.

I think it's certainly possible for him to do it if: A) he avoids any major injury, B) he continues to be on a good team, and C) he wants to keep playing.

[HoustonGM]

Given that he has 54 wins in the last 4 seasons, I find in a bit difficult to argue that he can't win 54 more in the next 5. Has it ever been done before? No, but then I don't think that any MLB pitcher has ever racked up 54 in his age 42 thru age 45 seasons before either.

Here you go! Jack Quinn matched Moyer with 54 back from 1926-1929. Phil Niekro came damn close with 51 (and then added 34 more between the ages of 46 and 48!).

[dps]

Here you go! Jack Quinn matched Moyer with 54 back from 1926-1929. Phil Niekro came damn close with 51 (and then added 34 more between the ages of 46 and 48!).

Well, darn it. I didn't even actually check to see if it had been done before--it just seemed very unlikely.

Anyway, if Moyer doesn't make it (and note that I'm not saying that he will, just that I don't think it's a given that he can't), I'd say that Hudson, Halladay, and Oswalt are the best bets (not that I'd bet on anybody will less than 200 wins to get to 300 even if I were a betting man--the odds are against any particular individual doing it). All three are under 35, have a recond of consistant success, and none of them have a really bad injury history (in that since becoming regular starters, none of them have more than 1 season in which they have pitched less than 140 innings).

[bucher34]

Buehrle and Oswalt, period. Both guys are not injury risks and consistently pitch 200+ innings while raking in close to 15 wins a season, sometimes more sometimes less.

Fun fact: I know this is irrelevant, but in all of my bbm dynasties, those two have surpassed 300 every dynasty and I've played many dynasties. CC dies out, Halladay started winning too late, and haven't ever gotten there with Lincecum.