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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Yeah, barring something odd Glavine should get to 300 (although not getting 5 innings in vs. the Dodgers with like 9 runs of support last week would qualify)....and after him who else is going to get there?
With the way pitchers are handled today with pitch counts, 5 man rotations and the like, pitchers have a really hard time winning 200 games let alone 300.
Right now Clemens, Maddux, and Glavine are pretty much your 300 game winners and likely going to the hall. Johnson with his 284 I believe is next. After him the active wins leaders would probably be guys like Andy Pettite has had a decent career sits at 192 wins at age 35. Likely can play till age 40 and get to 250 wins. Curt Schilling will be 41 in November, he's at 213 wins. Jaimie Moyer has 224 but he's been around for 20 years and is as old as dirt. 42 year old Kenny Rogers has 210 wins but is up there in years. Pedro Martinez has 206 wins at age 35 but has hit some major health issues. Mike Mussina is 38 and has 243 career wins but has been atrocious so far this season. If he could find a way to pitch 5 more years maybe he'd have an outside shot. I'm sure I missed a couple guys in this list.
Other than those guys I can't foresee any of the current crop of 31 and under guys winning 15 to 20 games a year for the required number of seasons to get to that mark.
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I believe the leader for wins under age 35 is Bartolo Colon, and he's 34 and less than half way to 300. not happening any time soon