Most WP in a Season
Posted by Raphy on August 12, 2009
It took a little over a month, but AJ Burnett has racked up another game with 3 wild pitches. As I mentioned at the time Burnett was already the (post 1954) record holder for most 3+ WP games in a season. Now he has 4 such games. Yet , remarkably his 17 wild pitched are nowhere near the league record, even among recent starters. Here are the single season leaders since 1901:
Cnt Player **WP** Year Age Tm Lg G GS CG SHO GF W L W-L% SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA ERA+ HR BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ Pit Str +----+-----------------+------+----+---+---+--+---+---+--+---+--+--+--+-----+--+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+----+--+----+----+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ 1 Red Ames 30 1905 22 NYG NL 34 31 21 2 3 22 8 .733 0 262.2 220 113 80 105 198 2.74 107 2 1064 3 0 0 2 Tony Cloninger 27 1966 25 ATL NL 39 38 11 1 1 14 11 .560 1 257.2 253 134 118 116 178 4.12 89 29 1132 981 34 7 9 6 17 12 19 16 14 2 0 .258 .336 .396 .732 104 3 Juan Guzman 26 1993 26 TOR AL 33 33 2 1 0 14 3 .824 0 221 211 107 98 110 194 3.99 109 17 963 836 35 1 2 3 5 9 10 25 17 2 1 .252 .338 .358 .696 87 4 Larry Cheney 26 1914 28 CHC NL 50 40 21 6 10 20 18 .526 5 311.1 239 136 88 140 157 2.54 109 9 1295 10 0 0 5 Jack Morris 24 1987 32 DET AL 34 34 13 0 0 18 11 .621 0 266 227 111 100 93 208 3.38 126 39 1101 996 29 8 7 1 6 5 11 31 9 2 1 .228 .293 .391 .684 82 6 Matt Clement 23 2000 25 SDP NL 34 34 0 0 0 13 17 .433 0 205 194 131 117 125 170 5.14 83 22 940 782 36 2 4 16 12 5 19 12 5 0 0 .248 .361 .384 .745 100 3536 2040 7 Tim Leary 23 1990 31 NYY AL 31 31 6 1 0 9 19 .321 0 208 202 105 95 78 138 4.11 97 18 881 785 39 1 1 7 7 4 20 18 9 6 0 .257 .328 .378 .706 97 8 Christy Mathewson 23 1901 20 NYG NL 40 38 36 5 2 20 17 .541 0 336 288 131 90 97 221 2.41 138 3 1383 13 1 0 9 Mike Moore 22 1992 32 OAK AL 36 36 2 0 0 17 12 .586 0 223 229 113 102 103 117 4.12 91 20 982 852 43 4 5 8 7 11 26 19 13 0 0 .269 .349 .399 .748 115 10 Bobby Witt 22 1986 22 TEX AL 31 31 0 0 0 11 9 .550 0 157.2 130 104 96 143 174 5.48 79 18 741 583 31 0 2 3 3 9 6 46 4 0 3 .223 .374 .369 .743 102 11 Tony Cloninger 22 1965 24 MLN NL 40 38 16 1 2 24 11 .686 1 279 247 115 102 119 211 3.29 106 20 1180 1045 32 6 5 3 7 6 16 14 11 1 1 .236 .315 .336 .651 83 12 Jack Hamilton 22 1962 23 PHI NL 41 26 4 1 8 9 12 .429 2 182 185 115 103 107 101 5.09 76 18 820 690 21 6 8 5 8 10 19 12 7 0 1 .268 .366 .394 .760 114 13 Scott Williamson 21 2000 24 CIN NL 48 10 0 0 13 5 8 .385 6 112 92 45 41 75 136 3.29 144 7 495 411 20 5 7 3 4 2 9 5 4 4 1 .224 .346 .348 .694 80 2030 1170 14 Ken Howell 21 1989 28 PHI NL 33 32 1 1 0 12 12 .500 0 204 155 84 78 86 164 3.44 103 11 827 722 30 4 6 2 8 9 17 26 15 2 1 .215 .297 .313 .610 81 15 Joe Niekro 21 1985 40 TOT ML 35 35 4 1 0 11 13 .458 0 225.1 211 108 96 107 121 3.83 91 24 983 849 22 2 6 5 10 12 15 47 7 1 1 .249 .332 .364 .696 102 16 Nolan Ryan 21 1977 30 CAL AL 37 37 22 4 0 19 16 .543 0 299 198 110 92 204 341 2.77 141 12 1272 1027 23 3 7 9 22 10 21 43 19 7 3 .193 .329 .256 .585 64