27 MLB records that will never be broken
They named the most valuable pitcher award after him for a reason.
Denton True “Cy” Young was one of the greatest pitchers of all-time, and holds several records that are now more than 100-years-old. In his career, Young won 511 games, lost 316 and completed 749 of them.
He sits alone on top of the Major League Baseball all-time wins list – 94 ahead of the great Walter Johnson. The greatest pitcher of the last 20 years, Greg Maddux, finished his career with 355 wins, which ranked eighth all-time – 156 wins short of Cy Young’s mark. Tim Hudson leads all active players with 215 wins and Bartolo Colon, C.C. Sabathia and Mark Buehrle are the only active players with more than 200 career victories.
On the flip side, Cy Young lost 316 games. Only 16 players in big league history have won that many. While Nolan Ryan came close (Ryan lost 292 career games before retiring in 1993), only Bert Blyleven has 250 losses or more among pitchers to take the mound in the last 25 years. The active leader is Mark Buehrle, who ranks 143rd in the record books with 155.
And much more often than not, Cy Young finished what he started. With 749 complete games, he ranks 103 ahead of 19th Century hurler Pud Galvin on the all-time list, and 195 ahead of Tim Keefe. Because of the changes in the way the game is played – with five-man rotations and pitch counts designed to keep starters fresh – the active leader in complete games is Sabathia with 38. Recently retired Roy Halladay had 67.
It’s safe to say that Cy Young’s career marks for wins, losses or complete games will never be challenged again.
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