Career Statistics
In a ten-year major league career, McLain won 131 games against 91 losses. His career earned run average was 3.39 and he threw 1,282 strikeouts in 1,886 innings pitched. McLain was a three-time All-Star and won the Cy Young Award twice in his career. Because he relied so much on his fastball, he also surrendered numerous home runs, leading the American League in home runs allowed for three consecutive years between 1966 and 1968.
Since McLain's 31 win season, only two other pitchers have approached the 30-game milestone (Steve Carlton won 27 games in 1972 and Bob Welch also with 27 victories in 1990. With Major League Baseball moving from the four-man pitching rotation of McLain's era to five-man rotations, and with the increased reliance on relief pitchers, some observers opine that there may not be another 30-game winner as the game is played today.
| W | L | WP | GP | GS | CG | SHO | SV | IP | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 131 | 91 | .590 | 280 | 264 | 105 | 29 | 2 | 1,886.0 | 548 | 1282 | 3.39 | 1.16 |
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