Decade leaders (2000-2009)

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How many quality starts did Halladay have?

 

he had 174. he was slowed by injury in 2004 and 2005, only pitched 17 games in 2001 (not sure why) and was epically bad in 2000. his 2000 still makes me laugh; the rest of his career he's been outstanding but that year he was worse than awful.

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this is impressive - pedro, from his last year as an expo through all of his years as a red sock, had a QS% of 76 and an average game score of 65.

 

i was also surprised to see that he had 36 games in 1997-99 where he threw more than 120 pitches, or 12 per year. no wonder his arm started falling off later in his career. not to say that other guys haven't done that sort of thing - clemens threw 25 games of 120+ pitches in one year alone (!!) - but pedro wasn't exactly built like a workhorse.

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Pujols wins the NL Triple Crown for the decade