List of Major League Baseball leaders in career wins
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This is a list of the top 500 Major League Baseball winningest pitchers. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. The main exception is that a starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards the win based on guidelines set forth in the official rules.
Cy Young holds the Major League Baseball win record with 511. Second is Walter Johnson with 417. Young and Johnson are the only players to earn 400 or more wins.
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Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 106 or more wins, the current cutoff for the top 500 (includes ties for the top 500, whenever applicable). Players in bold face are active as of the 2008 Major League Baseball season (including free agents), with the number in parentheses designating the number of wins they have earned during that season.
The stats are updated as of August 23, 2008.
[edit] Close to the top 500
As of August 23, 2008, these active players are within five wins of entering the top 500, now with a cutoff of 106 career wins:
- Paul Byrd (105)
- Johan Santana (105)
- Jon Garland (103)
- Mark Mulder (103)
- Kelvim Escobar (101)
[edit] See also
- Baseball statistics
- List of Major League Baseball wins champions
- List of Major League Baseball leaders in games started
- List of Major League Baseball leaders in games finished
- 300 win club
