Adam Eaton – Shut Out of Shutouts
Posted by Raphy on May 14, 2009
Tomorrow night Adam Eaton is scheduled to make his 200th career start. In his first 199 starts Eaton is 70-66 and has never thrown a shutout. In fact, Eaton could join Jason Bere as the only pitchers since 1954 to start their careers with 200 or more shutout-free starts.
Here are the longest such streaks:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Jason Bere 1993-05-27 2003-05-27 203 71 65 203 4 0 0 0 1096 1073 674 619 617 909 141 5.08 27 49 1 CHW-CIN-MIL-CLE-CHC Adam Eaton 2000-05-30 2009-05-09 199 69 66 199 3 0 0 0 1156 1216 662 621 433 843 159 4.83 52 33 1 SDP-TEX-PHI-BAL Brett Tomko 1997-05-27 2004-08-21 178 63 53 178 7 0 0 0 1084 1146 602 562 348 719 150 4.67 23 39 1 CIN-SEA-SDP-STL-SFG Tony Armas 1999-08-16 2008-07-01 167 53 65 167 0 0 0 0 896.2 863 500 460 425 655 116 4.62 49 42 6 MON-WSN-PIT-NYM Nate Robertson 2002-09-07 2008-09-24 163 49 66 163 4 0 0 0 984 1082 570 528 337 661 142 4.83 25 30 3 FLA-DET Jason Schmidt 1995-09-03 2002-06-14 163 57 55 163 6 0 0 0 989.2 1005 531 481 416 774 97 4.37 26 48 7 ATL-PIT-SFG
Bere finished his career without throwing a shutout. Here are the pitchers with the most career starts since 1954 with 0 shutouts.
Cnt Player **GS** SHO From To Ages G CG GF W L W-L% SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA ERA+ HR BF IBB HBP BK WP Teams +----+-----------------+-------+---+----+----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+---+------+----+----+----+----+----+------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+-----------+ 1 Jason Bere 203 0 1993 2003 22-32 211 4 2 71 65 .522 0 1111 1095 694 634 626 920 5.14 86 145 4987 25 29 1 51 CHW-TOT-CHC-CLE 2 Adam Eaton 199 0 2000 2009 22-31 203 3 2 70 66 .515 0 1161 1226 669 628 436 844 4.87 85 162 5076 31 52 1 34 SDP-TEX-PHI-BAL 3 Tony Armas 167 0 1999 2008 21-30 185 0 7 53 65 .449 0 925.2 891 519 478 431 680 4.65 94 122 4055 41 51 6 43 MON-WSN-PIT-NYM 4 Nate Robertson 163 0 2002 2009 24-31 182 4 3 50 66 .431 1 1011.1 1115 594 552 356 684 4.91 91 144 4416 17 26 3 30 FLA-DET 5 Paul Wilson 153 0 1996 2005 23-32 170 3 6 40 58 .408 0 941.2 1029 560 509 336 619 4.86 88 126 4160 28 59 4 25 NYM-TBD-CIN 6 Willie Blair 139 0 1990 2001 24-35 418 3 75 60 86 .411 4 1274 1438 778 713 415 759 5.04 88 170 5572 28 36 3 41 TOR-CLE-HOU-COL-SDP-DET-TOT 7 Scott Kamieniecki 138 0 1991 2000 27-36 250 8 37 53 59 .473 5 975.2 1006 519 490 446 542 4.52 97 105 4254 34 32 1 35 NYY-BAL-TOT 8 Allen Watson 137 0 1993 2000 22-29 206 3 29 51 55 .481 1 892 979 547 499 351 589 5.03 86 139 3925 7 35 10 35 STL-SFG-ANA-TOT-NYY 9 Shawn Chacon 134 0 2001 2008 23-30 269 0 71 45 61 .425 36 922 916 544 511 475 619 4.99 95 137 4130 47 66 3 36 COL-TOT-PIT-HOU 10 Shawn Boskie 132 0 1990 1998 23-31 217 4 24 49 63 .438 1 870.1 982 540 497 292 494 5.14 84 133 3854 24 44 4 36 CHC-TOT-CAL-BAL-MON
What was Eaton's closest call? Here are Eaton's starts sorted by IP. There are 2 games that jump out at you. On August 11, 2000 Eaton had a shutout through 8 innings. However Eaton had thrown 117 pitches and only had a 3-0 lead and was replaced by Trevor Hoffman. Less than a year later Eaton came close again, but was victimized by a 6th inning solo shot by Gary Sheffield.
Hat-tip to JDV whose comment lead me to look for this information.
May 14th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
No reference to Adam Eaton will ever again be complete without reference to this thread: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/the_matt_wieters_facts_website/
May 15th, 2009 at 7:57 am
That's crazy
May 15th, 2009 at 8:40 am
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