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Tom Seaver
Pitcher

1967-77 New York Mets
1977-82 Cincinnati Reds
1983 New York Mets
1984-6 Chicago White Sox
1986 Boston Red Sox

  • Had nine straight seasons with 200-plus strikeouts, a major league record.

  • Won three NL Cy Young Awards--1969, 1973, and 1975.

  • 3,640 career strikeouts--fourth on the all-time list.

  • Largely responsible for the Mets transformation from perennial cellar-dweller to World Series contender, Seaver won 16 games in 1967 and 1968 and then went an amazing 25-7 to lead the Mets to the Series.

  • Struck out ten Padres in a row in a game in 1970, a major league record. Seaver struck out 19 total in that game, tying a record that has since been surpassed by Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood.

  • Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.


A youthful Seaver, 1967

  • Nickname was "Tom Terrific."

  • Won 311 games in his career.

  • His .603 lifetime winning percentage is the best of any 300-game winner of the last half-century.

  • Won Game Four of the 1969 World Series 2-1 in ten innings.

  • Pitched 61 career shutouts.

  • Seaver was National League Rookie of the Year in 1967.
YR TM LG GP W L PCT IP H BB SO ERA
1967 NY N 35 16 13 .552 251.0 224 78 170 2.76
1968 NY N 36 16 12 .571 277.2 224 48 205 2.20
1969 NY N 36 25 7 .781 273.1 202 82 208 2.21
1970 NY N 37 18 12 .600 290.2 230 83 283 2.82
1971 NY N 36 20 10 .667 286.1 210 61 289 1.76
1972 NY N 35 21 12 .636 262.0 215 77 249 2.92
1973 NY N 36 19 10 .655 290.0 219 64 251 2.08
1974 NY N 32 11 11 .500 236.0 199 75 201 3.20
1975 NY N 36 22 9 .710 280.1 217 88 243 2.38
1976 NY N 35 14 11 .560 271.0 211 77 235 2.59
1977 NY N 13 7 3 .700 96.0 79 28 72 3000
1977 Cin N 20 14 3 .824 165.1 120 38 124 2.34
1978 Cin N 36 16 14 .533 259.2 218 89 226 2.88
1979 Cin N 32 16 6 .727 215.0 187 61 131 3.14
1980 Cin N 26 10 8 .556 168.0 140 59 101 3.64
1981 Cin N 23 14 2 .875 166.1 120 66 87 2.54
1982 Cin N 21 5 13 .278 111.1 136 44 62 5.50
1983 NY N 34 9 14 .391 231.0 201 86 135 3.55
1984 Chi A 34 15 11 .577 236.2 216 61 131 3.95
1985 Chi A 35 16 11 .593 238.2 223 69 134 3.17
1986 Chi A 12 2 6 .250 72.0 66 27 31 4.38
1986 Bos A 16 5 7 .417 104.1 114 29 72 3.80
  20   656 311 205 .603 4782.2 3971 3640 3640 2.86







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