Cubs who led NL in pitching categories, Part 1 By JohnW53 on May 11, 2021, 6:38am CDT +
431 times, an average of more than 3 per season.
They have led in at least 1 of the 36 categories shown at Baseball-Reference.com in
110 of the 120 seasons. Three of the 10 in which they had no leaders have come in the past 20 seasons: 2001, 2009 and 2014.
In 1992, a Cub led in
16 categories; in every one, the leader was Greg Maddux.
In 1938, they led in
18, with Bill Lee on top in 14.
And in 1918, they were first in
21, including 16 by Hippo Vaughn.
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The Cubs won the pennant in the latter 2 seasons. They led in 14, 13 and 12 categories in 3 other title years: 1945, 1932 and 1929.
The Florida and have had 630 players take the field in a regular season game.
This offseason, we’re recapping each of them, and their time spent with our favorite franchise. We’ve already looked at 340 of them. Today’s group of five all had between 75 and 249 PA/BF, finished above replacement level, and were all pitchers. Players are ranked based on brWAR divided by PA/BF.
Alejandro Peña is a right-handed pitcher from Cambiaso, Dominican Republic. He signed his first professional deal in 1978, to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After making his major league debut for them in 1981, he played his first nine seasons at baseball’s top level with them, both as part of the rotation and out of the bullpen.
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