Young Winner

[YankeeLinks]

At the age of 23, C. C. Sabathia just earned his 50th win. Who was the last pitcher to reach 50 wins when he was younger than C.C.?

[UtterChaos]

At the age of 23, C. C. Sabathia just earned his 50th win. Who was the last pitcher to reach 50 wins when he was younger than C.C.? Just a guess: Dwight Gooden?

[RascalJones]

Sabathia is the youngest pitcher to reach 50 career wins since Atlanta's Steve Avery did it in 1993, at age 23. Sabathia is the youngest active pitcher to reach 50 wins. The previous youngest was Greg Maddux, who was 24, but about three months older than Sabathia, when he won his 50th game.


http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12526762&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46370&rfi=6


Although Avery would have been about 3 months older than CC when he got his.

[RascalJones]

One thing that's interesting, is that CC has done it on a team that hasn't had a whole lot of talent. Winning 13 last year was pretty impressive in my book.

[YankeeLinks]

Sabathia is the youngest pitcher to reach 50 career wins since Atlanta's Steve Avery did it in 1993, at age 23. Sabathia is the youngest active pitcher to reach 50 wins. The previous youngest was Greg Maddux, who was 24, but about three months older than Sabathia, when he won his 50th game.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12526762&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46370&rfi=6




That's the quote I saw.

[KCBOOMER]

The correct answer is Dwight Gooden. The question was who was the last pitcher "younger than Sabathia". Avery was 23 and four or five months old when he did this. Sabathia had just turn 23 when he got to that milestone. The quotes are also correct as they they specify that Sabathia was the youngest since Avery. The quote doesn't say Avery was younger than Sabathia.

[YankeeLinks]

The correct answer is Dwight Gooden. The question was who was the last pitcher "younger than Sabathia". Avery was 23 and four or five months old when he did this. Sabathia had just turn 23 when he got to that milestone. The quotes are also correct as they they specify that Sabathia was the youngest since Avery. The quote doesn't say Avery was younger than Sabathia.

Sabathia was born in 7/80, which was 24 years ago. So, Sabathia must have been 23 years 11+ months when he did it - a few months older than Avery

[RascalJones]

You know, I looked at that, but then I thought my math was bad. Sabathia turned 24 six days before win #50. So he was 24 years and 6 days.

From the link, the paragraph BEFORE the one I quoted earlier:

C.C. Sabathia won the 50th game of his young career Tuesday night. It took Sabathia just three-plus years to win 50 games, a mark he achieved at age 24.


I don't know the answer to this, who was the quickest to 50 wins in terms of # of games pitched?

CC took 116 games.

Avery had exactly 50 wins after his 4th season (1993) with a total of 136 games, but I don't know if he lost any at the end of that year.

Gooden took only 82 games to get it done. (Found a nice site to find this info .... www.ultimatemets.com)