02-04-2023, 02:03 PM
(02-04-2023, 12:55 PM)terry Wrote:(02-04-2023, 11:26 AM)Mick Wrote: Who's the only Cy Young award winner to have a losing career record? No Giants connection...
Randy Jones?
Nice pull, Terry. Jones was 100-123 for his career. Like Matt Cain, he was a pretty good pitcher with good stuff and a good ERA (3.42 vs. Cain's 3.68) but with a career losing record (Cain was 104-118). Their career WHIP was about the same, 1.251 (Jones) to 1.228. Jones had two really good years, going 20-12 in 1975 and 22-8 (Cy Young) in 1976. Overall, Jones had seven sub-.500 seasons in his ten year career. Might have had something to do with throwing 25 complete games in 40 starts during his cy young season, because he never had a winning season after that.
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