[Sylvanfan]

I was thinking more like 250 myself but that would be the number for consideration...not the automatic benchmark that 300 is. If you pitch about 15 years and average just over 16 wins a year you'll get to 250. Every pitcher who won 300 games had to have a fairly long career of 15 plus seasons. The thought on the 5 man rotation and pitch counts is that you should be able to extend a players career so the arguement might be a 20 year career today is no more taxing on someone than a 15 year career used to be.

Take Roy Halladay for instance he's 30 right now and I think has 107 wins in a 7 year career for arguements sake lets say he wins another 5 games this year to have 112 which would give him an average of 16 per year. Say he pitches another 10 years and averages 15 wins a year he'd get to 250. And he's a guy who hasn't exactly had great durability to date or fantastic health as he's missed significant portions of seasons to date. For him to win 200 he'd only need to average like 12 wins a year for another 7 years. Which really wouldn't be that outstanding, nor would it be hall of fame worthy.