All time strikeout leaders

royalbrett

It blows my mind that when I first started following baseball (with serious interest in 1980), that the all time strikeout leader (Walter Johnson) is now 9th on the all time list. And, he was almost 400 ahead of second place at the time.

Almost equally crazy is that Nolan Ryan has a whopping 17% more strikeouts than current second place, and a 62% increase over Johnson.

JoeBanzai

It's not so amazing when you look at the fact that very few players struck out more than 100 times a year in the 1960's and before.

Now they strike out all the time, even the little guys are swinging for the fences. Batting average is not as important as SLG.


Striking out!

lightningboy

On a related Walter Johnson note, here is something that blew my mind the other day ----- I was looking at a 1961 Topps (I believe) card featuring Johnson with one of his many super human feats. Compared to today's game, where $20 million a year gets you 4 days rest, Johnson once threw 3 complete game shutouts in a period of 4 days!!!!! Can you say pampered babies??

JoeBanzai

<< <i>On a related Walter Johnson note, here is something that blew my mind the other day ----- I was looking at a 1961 Topps (I believe) card featuring Johnson with one of his many super human feats. Compared to today's game, where $20 million a year gets you 4 days rest, Johnson once threw 3 complete game shutouts in a period of 4 days!!!!! Can you say pampered babies?? >>



He had a pretty good ERA to go along with those K's!

BLUEJAYWAY

IIRC Warren Spahn pitched both games of a DH.

timpatg

What could Johnson have done if he had the roids that Nolan had?

JoeBanzai

<< <i>What could Johnson have done if he had the roids that Nolan had? >>



I must have missed it............when did Ryan get accused of doing roids?