Answers:
6. (all time) Pedro Martinez, .6857%
11. Johan Santana, .6703%
17. Roy Halladay, .6636%
18. Roy Oswalt, .6634%
24. Tim Hudson, .6547%
There ya go...good guesses, but Tim Hudson was a toughy. Not someone you'd think of right off the bat.
A starting pitcher question this week:
Of the top twenty-five starting pitchers in career win-loss percentage, five are active major leaguers. Can you name them?
I'll give the answer after the game is over. Just a head's up: the answers are all starting pitchers, no relief pitchers (even those that have pitched for many seasons) will qualify.
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Oswalt is one
pma - August 27, 2009
perrrhappppsssss
Evan Hochschild - August 27, 2009
do you count Randy Johnson as “active,” since he is on the DL?
Since I just saw that Andy Pettitte passed Lefty Grove on the Yankees’ all time win list, I would guess Pettitte.
So, if Johnson is “active,” I will go with Pettitte, Moyer, and Jonson.
If he isn’t, I will add Pedro Martinez to the other two above.
clack - August 27, 2009
rj would still count
only players that have officially retired count as no longer being active
Evan Hochschild - August 27, 2009
oh, I just noticed the question is win percent, not wins.
Yeah, Roy O is probably one of the three.
clack - August 27, 2009
Win%
Martinez, Santana, Oswalt, Santana,…RJ?
clack - August 27, 2009
I put Santana twice above, I'll add Hallady to the list above.
clack - August 27, 2009
No clue but I'll guess
(I assume there’s a minmum number of games and some guy with a 3-1 record won’t qualify)
Pedro Martinez
Mariano Rivera
Randy Johnson
Tim Hudson
Roy Holliday
Joe in Birmingham - August 27, 2009
right
i’m going off whatever baseball reference has for me…i would assume a minimum of 75 decisions or something similar
Evan Hochschild - August 27, 2009
How can that be right...
…when Mariano Rivera is a reliever and you said relievers were ineligible?
DrBristol - August 27, 2009
i didn't mean "right"
as in his answers were right, i meant, he was right in assuming there was a minimum number of games to qualify. sorry for the misunderstanding
Evan Hochschild - August 27, 2009
I understood what you meant
Joe in Birmingham - August 27, 2009
I got three right (Pedro, Hudson & Halliday) - lucky guesses
(and I had a reliever in there – I didn’t notice this was limited to starters – I would have missed the last two anyway – my next choice would have been John Smoltz – but he was both a starter and a reliever)
It’s sad I had so little faith in Roy Oswalt.
But 3 out of 5 – not bad for me
Joe in Birmingham - August 27, 2009
OK, how about...
Oswalt
Pedro
Santana
Unit
Halladay?
DrBristol - August 27, 2009
i'm gonna go with ...
Oswalt
Carpenter
Pedro
Smoltz
Santana
Rhombus67 - August 27, 2009
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