When the San Francisco Giants were winning championship after championship in the early 2010s and become for a period the most well known brand in baseball, there was perhaps no one more recognizable than right-handed pitcher Tim Lincecum.
The San Francisco Giants are turning to a familiar face to get the ball rolling this regular season, putting their ace among historic company. Logan Webb was pegged as the Giants' Opening Day starter all the way back in February, over a month before the start of the regular season.
Pitchers can win the MVP, sure, but those occasions are rare. Every year, though, a pitcher wins the Cy Young in both the American League and National League. Here is every NL Cy Young winner of the new millennium.
While no-nos are obviously tremendous accomplishments, the list of pitchers who have thrown one includes some names you wouldn't expect. When it comes to hurlers who have done it more than once, that is understandably not the case.
In MLB history, a pitcher has won 18 or more games while losing five or fewer games while also recording 200 strikeouts on just 31 occasions. How many of the 31 can you name in five minutes?
If there has been one overused theme so far this season, it's that 2017 is a summer of great parity in Major League Baseball. Or at least, that is the sunny side up, glass half full version angle, because it has been a season where drastic cases of inconsistency and flat-out missed expectations have forced parity to the plate.
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