2011: No Pitchers with 10 Starts and 10 Games Finished - Hasn't Happened Since 1904

Every season there are  pitchers who pull double duty;  they makes some starts, but also pitch in  relief . Sometimes this includes rehabbing starters. Other times it includes relievers who need to make emergency starts. Often its the team's extra starter, who relieves when his starting abilities are not needed. Every season this leads to an interesting combo, pitchers who start 10 games and also finish 10 in relief. Almost every season until now.

2011 was the first season since 1904, in which no pitcher both started 10 games and finished 10 in relief.   The complete list since 1901 can be found in this link. Here are the most recent years.

	Year ▴	#
	2000	7	Octavio Dotel / Albie Lopez / Terry Mulholland / Dan Reichert / Jose Silva / Tim Wakefield / Scott Williamson
	2001	7	Terry Adams / Jim Brower / Kelvim Escobar / Gary Glover / Omar Olivares / Willis Roberts / Ron Villone
	2002	8	Terry Adams / Casey Fossum / Ryan Franklin / Gary Glover / John Halama / Jorge Sosa / Tim Wakefield / Victor Zambrano
	2003	3	Kelvim Escobar / Byung-Hyun Kim / Matt Roney
	2004	4	Dustin Hermanson / Ramon Ortiz / Todd Van Poppel / Ron Villone
	2005	2	Curt Schilling / Mike Wood
	2006	4	Bruce Chen / Seth McClung / Fernando Nieve / Jorge Sosa
	2007	3	Ramon Ortiz / Joel Pineiro / Brad Thompson
	2008	1	Seth McClung
	2009	2	Mark Hendrickson / Matt Palmer
	2010	4	Brian Duensing / Jeff Suppan / Hisanori Takahashi / Tim Wakefield
	2011	0

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Generated 11/20/2011.

Not only did no pitcher make it to 10/10, no one did 9/9. The only other season since 1888 in which that happened was 1902. In 2011 two pitchers did make it to 8/8 and another pair to 7/7.

Rk		GS	GF	Tm	G	CG	SHO	W	L	W-L%	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA	ERA+
1	Aneury Rodriguez	8	16	HOU	43	0	0	1	6	.143	0	85.1	83	57	50	32	64	5.27	72
2	Felipe Paulino	20	8	TOT	39	0	0	4	10	.286	0	139.1	146	74	69	55	133	4.46	93
3	Clay Hensley	9	7	FLA	37	0	0	6	7	.462	0	67.2	62	41	39	30	46	5.19	76
4	Marco Estrada	7	12	MIL	43	0	0	4	8	.333	0	92.2	83	45	42	29	88	4.08	96

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Generated 11/26/2011.

If you're curious as to how far players have taken this, in baseball history only 17 players have made it to 20/20, the last being Rick Camp in 1982. Two of those players made it to the 24/24 club:

Rk	Player	Year	GS	GF	Tm	G	CG	SHO	W	L	W-L%	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA	ERA+
1	Mordecai Brown	1911	27	24	CHC	53	21	0	21	11	.656	13	270.0	267	110	84	55	129	2.80	118
2	Chief Bender	1913	21	21	PHA	48	14	2	21	10	.677	13	236.2	208	78	58	59	135	2.21	125
3	Tom Hughes	1915	25	22	BSN	50	17	4	16	14	.533	9	280.1	208	88	66	58	171	2.12	126
4	Bob Shawkey	1916	27	24	NYY	53	21	4	24	14	.632	8	276.2	204	78	68	81	122	2.21	130
5	Walt Kinney	1919	21	21	PHA	43	13	0	9	15	.375	2	202.2	199	110	82	91	97	3.64	94
6	Eddie Rommel	1923	31	20	PHA	56	19	3	18	19	.486	5	297.2	306	141	108	108	76	3.27	126
7	Eddie Rommel	1925	28	20	PHA	52	14	1	21	10	.677	3	261.0	285	127	107	95	67	3.69	126
8	Rube Walberg	1925	20	23	PHA	53	7	0	8	14	.364	7	191.2	197	99	85	77	82	3.99	117
9	Jack Scott	1926	22	24	NYG	50	13	0	13	15	.464	5	226.0	242	118	109	53	82	4.34	86
10	Firpo Marberry	1929	26	21	WSH	49	16	0	19	12	.613	11	250.1	233	100	85	69	121	3.06	139
11	Phil Collins	1932	21	20	PHI	43	6	0	14	12	.538	3	184.1	231	117	108	65	66	5.27	84
12	Bob Smith	1935	20	22	BSN	46	8	2	8	18	.308	5	203.1	232	105	89	61	58	3.94	96
13	Claude Passeau	1936	21	22	PHI	49	8	2	11	15	.423	3	217.1	247	118	84	55	85	3.48	132
14	Jack Wilson	1937	21	23	BOS	51	14	1	16	10	.615	7	221.1	209	111	91	119	137	3.70	129
15	Bob Hooper	1950	20	22	PHA	45	3	0	15	10	.600	5	170.1	181	108	95	91	58	5.02	90
16	Phil Niekro	1967	20	20	ATL	46	10	1	11	9	.550	9	207.0	164	64	43	55	129	1.87	179
17	Rick Camp	1982	21	20	ATL	51	3	0	11	13	.458	5	177.1	199	84	72	52	68	3.65	103

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Generated 11/26/2011.