(09-25-2015 02:25 PM)stever20 Wrote:  did some more looking... really amazing the pitching situation...

last 5 years- so 2011-15 now...
only 10 guys with 1000 innings(or averaging 200 per season). Shields, Kershaw, Hernandez, Price, Dickey, Hamels, Madbum, Verlander, Scherzer, Lester. Buehrle will join this list with 1.1 more innings this year.
only 25 guys with even 900 innings(or averaging 180 per season). Colon and Porcello will join this to make it 27.
Only 42 guys with 800 innings(or 160 per season).

I know guys like Scherzer and Price will probably end up giving a good return on investment, but signing pitchers to long term deals is so scary. The threat of injury is real, as these stats show. I'm curious though, how many guys consistently make at least 30 starts, but fail to hit 200 innings? As we've discussed there are plenty of pitchers these days who fail to go 6 innings per start