Season 38 Stat Update - Career Pitching

Just as Jin-Chi Itou dominates the career hitting records for modern hitters, Sam Stock dominates the career pitching categories.

But unlike the hitting records, many other modern pitchers are prominent in the career stats.

Let's start with Stock.  Yeah, he's best-known for big wins totals (at 249, he's just outside the top 5 going into his age 29 season), but middle-relief wins don't really mean much.  He's currently #1 on in  the career stats in BA Allowed, ERA, OBP Allowed, Slugging % Allowed, and WHIP.  We'll see how those hold up when he begins the decline in a few more seasons, but for now he's ahead in most of those by wide margins.

Santos Eovaldi checks in at #4 in Complete Games and can move up to #3 with just 2 completos this year (the 7-point stamina drop in the off-season didn't help). 

Ernest Carey hits the charts in 4 categories: #2 in ERA at 2.67, #5 OBP Allowed at .278, #5 in Slugging % Allowed at .315 and  tied for 3rd in WHIP at 1.08.

Yean Carlos Posada comes in at #3 in ERA with a sterling 2.69.

Bralin Kohn just became eligible this year (810+ IP) and moves into #5 in ERA with a 2.75 mark.

Aurelio Duran is #2 in OBP Allowed (.271) and WHIP (1.05).
                          
Glen Coste is #3 in OBP Allowed (.274) and tied for 3rd in WHIP (1.08)
                    
Kind of a unique phenomenon in Hobbs:  in most worlds it's the short relievers that dominate the qualitative stats.  But at least among this group of still-active hurlers, Duran is the only pure short reliever.  Stock, Carey, Kohn and Coste are all more long/middle types or "long Setup A's".  Along with perhaps the best pitcher in Hobbs history, Orlando Fernandez, they make Hobbs the "World of the Middle Relievers".