Was looking at pitching stats and found some very interesting things.

Nolan Ryan had 5714 Stikeouts and pitched 5386 innings over his career. That is over one stikeout an inning (1.06). Compare the number 2 guy Roger Clemons .955. Number 3, Randy Johnson avg. 1.196, but has almost 1200 less strikouts. Most don't average over 1 strikout an inning until you get to Pedro Martinez, 15th on the strikeout list, whose avg. is 1.133, but is over 2700 behind Ryan.

Gus Weyhing, who played from 1887 to 1901, holds the record for most hits batsmen at 277. He pitched in 538 games, avg. over 8 innings a game. He beamed a batter on avg. more than once every 2 games he pitched. Not bad for someone who is 34 on the all time wins list.

For this being considered the home run era, you have to go to the 9th spot to find an active player on the list of most HR's given up by a pitcher. By the way, it is Robin Roberts who played from 1948-1966 and gave up 505 HR's. He is the only player to give up over 500 HR's. So it is more rare to have a pitcher that has given up 500 HR's as oppose to a hitter who has hit more than 500 HR's, there are 20 of them.

I gotta go to an eye appointment, so I better be going. Til Next time.

MILK