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

Posted by Raphy
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.

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