Individual leaders in Innings Pitched and Strike Outs: charts 1903-2021.

Robbie Ray

Position: Pitcher

Bats: Left  •  Throws: Left

6-2, 215lb (188cm, 97kg)

Team: Seattle Mariners (majors)

Born: October 1, 1991 (Age: 30-170d) in Brentwood, TN us

Data derived from baseball-reference.com/leaders/  Click link to view.

Excluding the very short season 2020. For the American League (AL) and National League (NL).

In 2021 Robbie Ray won the AL Cy Young (CY) award as the best pitcher. He led the AL in IP and SO: 193 and 248. Ray is the only pitcher to lead either the AL or NL with fewer than 200 IP in a full season 1903-2021.

Most Innings Pitched (IP) by an individual pitcher. Innings are rounded to an integer.

Maximum IP are now about half of what they were 120 years ago.

First 300 IP season 1903-2021:

1903 NL Joe McGinnity+ (NYG) 434 (171 SO)

1903 AL Cy Young+ (BOS) 341 (176 SO)

Most recent 300 IP season 1903-2021:

1980 NL Steve Carlton+* (PHI) 304 (286 SO)

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Most Strike Outs (SO) by an individual pitcher in the American League (AL) and National League (NL).

First 300 SO season 1903-2021:

1903 AL Rube Waddell+* (PHA) 302 in 324 IP

Most recent 300 SO season 1903-2021:

2019 AL Gerrit Cole (HOU) 326 ... in 212 IP

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Now the SO leader has at least as many IP as the IP leader:

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