This is a list of the top 500 Major League Baseball winningest pitchers. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. The main exception is that a starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards the win based on guidelines set forth in the official rules.
Cy Young holds the Major League Baseball win record with 511; Walter Johnson is second with 417. Young and Johnson are the only players to earn 400 or more wins. Among pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 live-ball era, Warren Spahn has the most wins with 363.
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Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 107 or more wins, the current cutoff for the top 500 (includes ties for the top 500, whenever applicable). Players in bold face are active as of the 2009 Major League Baseball season (including free agents), with the number in parentheses designating the number of wins they have earned during the 2009 season.
The stats are updated as of the end of the 2009 regular season.
Close to the top 500
As of the end of the 2009 regular season, these active players are within five wins of entering the top 500, now with a cutoff of 107 career wins:
- Josh Beckett (106)
- Darren Oliver (106)
- Brad Penny (105)
- Carlos Zambrano (105)
- Ted Lilly (103)
- Mark Mulder (103)
- John Lackey (102)
See also
- Baseball statistics
- List of Major League Baseball wins champions
- List of Major League Baseball leaders in games started
- List of Major League Baseball leaders in games finished
- 300 win club
References
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