Getting Their Face Time In Early
Posted by Steve Lombardi on November 10, 2008
Here's an interesting list via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Season Finder: Pitchers, since 1996, ages 27 or younger, who have faced 1,000+ batters in a season...
From To Ages Seasons -----------------+----+----+-----+------- Livan Hernandez 1998 2001 23-26 3 C.C. Sabathia 2008 2008 27-27 1 Roy Oswalt 2005 2005 27-27 1 Mark Buehrle 2004 2004 25-25 1 Roy Halladay 2003 2003 26-26 1 Jose Lima 1999 1999 26-26 1 Carlos Perez 1998 1998 27-27 1 Mike Mussina 1996 1996 27-27 1 Pat Hentgen 1996 1996 27-27 1 Alex Fernandez 1996 1996 26-26 1 Seasons/Careers found: 10.
It appears that some young pitchers can shoulder a load and live to tell...
November 13th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Lima and Perez may have lived to tell of it, but they've been on life support 🙂
OTOH, Halladay, Oswalt, Buehrle and Mussina did fine after their early 1000-batter season.
I think only Hernandez had another season with as many batters (so far).