I know stats aren't that important but are there any power, strikeout pitchers? Most good pitchers I've seen had a bout 1 strikeout per inning, usually less.

1-k per inning is pretty good. But yeah they're there.

1 K per nine is great for a pitcher. For a starter thats anywhere from 180-220 k's a year. Reliever thats what 50-70. Id take it.

The ML record in real life is only 13.41 K's per 9 innings (held by Randy Johnson, a freak of nature who holds 7 of the top 10 spots). There are exactly 133 cases in baseball history of a pitcher having a season with 9.0 or more K's per 9 in a season (that's 133 instances-- there are pitchers like Randy Johnson who have had a dozen instances). The translation is, while such pitchers exist, they are a lot more rare than people think, and a rate of 9 K's per inning is a monumental achievement. In my world the record after 10 seasons is 10.29 (achieved this year) which would put him 41st on the all-time single-season list in real life, with the modern era of major league baseball being a lot longer than 10 years. So, it seems like the game engine is actually fairly accurate with this stuff. Maybe someday our world will see a guy strike out 13 guys per 9 innings, but he'd have to have insane ratings plus about 100 velocity-- doable, but, like Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez, extremely rare.

Quote: Originally posted by prezuiwf on 2/07/2010The ML record in real life is only 13.41 K's per inning (held by Randy Johnson, a freak of nature who holds 7 of the top 10 spots). There are exactly 133 cases in baseball history of a pitcher having a season with 9.0 or more K's per 9 in a season (that's 133 instances-- there are pitchers like Randy Johnson who have had a dozen instances). The translation is, while such pitchers exist, they are a lot more rare than people think, and a rate of 9 K's per inning is a monumental achievement. In my world the record after 10 seasons is 10.29 (achieved this year) which would put him 41st on the all-time single-season list in real life, with the modern era of major league baseball being a lot longer than 10 years. So, it seems like the game engine is actually fairly accurate with this stuff. Maybe someday our world will see a guy strike out 13 guys per 9 innings, but he'd have to have insane ratings plus about 100 velocity-- doable, but, like Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez, extremely rare.

13.41 k's per INNING is not only un-earthly amazing but impossible as well.. think you meant 13.41 k's/9 ;)

Quote: Originally posted by oriolemagic on 2/07/2010

Quote: Originally posted by prezuiwf on 2/07/2010The ML record in real life is only 13.41 K's per inning (held by Randy Johnson, a freak of nature who holds 7 of the top 10 spots). There are exactly 133 cases in baseball history of a pitcher having a season with 9.0 or more K's per 9 in a season (that's 133 instances-- there are pitchers like Randy Johnson who have had a dozen instances). The translation is, while such pitchers exist, they are a lot more rare than people think, and a rate of 9 K's per inning is a monumental achievement. In my world the record after 10 seasons is 10.29 (achieved this year) which would put him 41st on the all-time single-season list in real life, with the modern era of major league baseball being a lot longer than 10 years. So, it seems like the game engine is actually fairly accurate with this stuff. Maybe someday our world will see a guy strike out 13 guys per 9 innings, but he'd have to have insane ratings plus about 100 velocity-- doable, but, like Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez, extremely rare.

13.41 k's per INNING is not only un-earthly amazing but impossible as well.. think you meant 13.41 k's/9 ;)

Lol, not exactly impossible to have 13 k's per inning if your catcher really, really sucked and dropped a lot of strike 3's. I struck out 7 guys in one inning one time when I was 10 or 11.

Quote: Originally Posted By oriolemagic on 2/07/2010

Quote: Originally posted by prezuiwf on 2/07/2010 The ML record in real life is only 13.41 K's per inning (held by Randy Johnson, a freak of nature who holds 7 of the top 10 spots). There are exactly 133 cases in baseball history of a pitcher having a season with 9.0 or more K's per 9 in a season (that's 133 instances-- there are pitchers like Randy Johnson who have had a dozen instances). The translation is, while such pitchers exist, they are a lot more rare than people think, and a rate of 9 K's per inning is a monumental achievement. In my world the record after 10 seasons is 10.29 (achieved this year) which would put him 41st on the all-time single-season list in real life, with the modern era of major league baseball being a lot longer than 10 years. So, it seems like the game engine is actually fairly accurate with this stuff. Maybe someday our world will see a guy strike out 13 guys per 9 innings, but he'd have to have insane ratings plus about 100 velocity-- doable, but, like Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez, extremely rare.

13.41 k's per INNING is not only un-earthly amazing but impossible as well.. think you meant 13.41 k's/9 ;

Haha yes, fixed my post. Johnson is a Hall of Famer, but he wasn't quite THAT good

A pitcher has struck out 4 batters in an inning 51 times in baseball history. Oddly enough the only person to do it more than once in a career was Chuck Finley and he did it 3 times in 11 months. All three games were caught by different catchers and two of them have won multiple gold gloves in their careers. Figure that one out.

I was looking around in a couple of my world records and found this guy: Placido Villano He has all of the top 5 spots of most ks per 9. This guy is an absolute freak

Quote: Originally posted by strikeout26 on 2/07/2010
I struck out 7 guys in one inning one time when I was 10 or 11.

"Glory days."

I wanna go back, go back....and do it allll over!

Quote: Originally Posted By strikeout26 on 2/07/2010

Quote: Originally posted by oriolemagic on 2/07/2010

Quote: Originally posted by prezuiwf on 2/07/2010The ML record in real life is only 13.41 K's per inning (held by Randy Johnson, a freak of nature who holds 7 of the top 10 spots). There are exactly 133 cases in baseball history of a pitcher having a season with 9.0 or more K's per 9 in a season (that's 133 instances-- there are pitchers like Randy Johnson who have had a dozen instances). The translation is, while such pitchers exist, they are a lot more rare than people think, and a rate of 9 K's per inning is a monumental achievement. In my world the record after 10 seasons is 10.29 (achieved this year) which would put him 41st on the all-time single-season list in real life, with the modern era of major league baseball being a lot longer than 10 years. So, it seems like the game engine is actually fairly accurate with this stuff. Maybe someday our world will see a guy strike out 13 guys per 9 innings, but he'd have to have insane ratings plus about 100 velocity-- doable, but, like Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez, extremely rare.

13.41 k's per INNING is not only un-earthly amazing but impossible as well.. think you meant 13.41 k's/9 ;)

Lol, not exactly impossible to have 13 k's per inning if your catcher really, really sucked and dropped a lot of strike 3's. I struck out 7 guys in one inning one time when I was 10 or 11

Hence the nickname.