SP Winning Early Since 2009
Posted by Steve Lombardi on April 8, 2011
From 2009 through yesterday's games, which starting pitchers have won 7+ games within his team's first 30 games of the season?
Here's the list -
| Rk | Player | #Matching | W | L | GS | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roy Halladay | 13 | Ind. Games | 13 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.62 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 100.0 | 85 | 18 | 4 | 15 | 85 | 1.00 |
| 2 | Derek Lowe | 9 | Ind. Games | 9 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.29 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54.2 | 46 | 20 | 5 | 22 | 40 | 1.24 |
| 3 | Jered Weaver | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.32 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 54.2 | 32 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 54 | 0.80 |
| 4 | Kevin Slowey | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.78 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50.0 | 59 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 42 | 1.28 |
| 5 | Mike Pelfrey | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.62 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 48.0 | 43 | 14 | 2 | 24 | 22 | 1.40 |
| 6 | Tim Lincecum | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.61 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56.0 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 72 | 0.88 |
| 7 | Ubaldo Jimenez | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 0.81 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 58 | 0.99 | |
| 8 | Dan Haren | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.34 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 61.2 | 41 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 67 | 0.81 |
| 9 | Matt Garza | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.19 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60.2 | 33 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 50 | 0.81 |
| 10 | Yovani Gallardo | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 55.2 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 61 | 0.88 |
| 11 | A.J. Burnett | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.84 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53.2 | 40 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 46 | 0.99 |
| 12 | Mark Buehrle | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.83 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54.0 | 43 | 17 | 2 | 12 | 25 | 1.02 |
| 13 | Chad Billingsley | 8 | Ind. Games | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.49 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50.2 | 34 | 14 | 2 | 21 | 49 | 1.09 |
| 14 | Adam Wainwright | 7 | Ind. Games | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.49 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 47.0 | 36 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 38 | 1.17 |
| 15 | Justin Verlander | 7 | Ind. Games | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.1 | 28 | 12 | 2 | 15 | 60 | 0.85 |
| 16 | James Shields | 7 | Ind. Games | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.86 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50.1 | 45 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 45 | 1.09 |
| 17 | Johan Santana | 7 | Ind. Games | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 0.82 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44.0 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 50 | 1.02 |
| 18 | Jamie Moyer | 7 | Ind. Games | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.80 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 45.0 | 43 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 1.11 |
| 19 | Livan Hernandez | 7 | Ind. Games | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.33 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 47.1 | 40 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 17 | 1.27 |
| 20 | Felix Hernandez | 7 | Ind. Games | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.34 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 53.2 | 38 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 48 | 0.89 |
| 21 | Jon Garland | 7 | Ind. Games | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47.2 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 25 | 0.99 |
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That Halladay kid doesn't take long to get heated up, does he?
April 8th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
And Slowey isn't so... slow-ey.
April 8th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Burnett in 2010 won 4 times in the Yanks first 30 games, but only 6 more times after that.
Off to another fast start in 2011. Hope, for Yanks sake, that he keeps it going this time.
April 8th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
This is cool but would be more interesting if the line stats included all their starts and not just their wins.
April 9th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Good post Steve, as usual.
But maybe, when you are running a search that only searches for wins, or hits, or whatever; the column that is obviously going to be 0 - in this case wins and W/L% should be left off.
It seems a bit redundant and misleading.