PITCHERS AVERAGING 100+ PITCHES PER START
There are 22 pitchers who have made at least 10 starts in which they are averaging over a hundred pitches per start. Does that make them good? Well, take a look at the two Boston pitchers in the top three of this list, Chris Sale and Rick Porcello, and look at the two-run difference in their ERAs and you can answer that question yourself.
Seven pitchers on the list have a sub-3.00 ERA and seven more have a plus-3.99 ERA. Now, that’s a pretty sweet bell curve.
Pitchers averaging 100+ pitches per start at the 2017 All-Star break
| Rk | Player | Pit/GS | GS | Tm | IP | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Sale | 109.2 | 18 | BOS | 127.2 | 2.75 |
| 2 | Max Scherzer | 107.2 | 18 | WSN | 128.1 | 2.10 |
| 3 | Rick Porcello | 106.7 | 19 | BOS | 119.1 | 4.75 |
| 4 | Chris Archer | 106.3 | 19 | TBR | 123.0 | 3.95 |
| 5 | Justin Verlander | 106.1 | 18 | DET | 104.2 | 4.73 |
| 6 | Gio Gonzalez | 105.9 | 18 | WSN | 113.1 | 2.86 |
| 7 | Robbie Ray | 104.8 | 17 | ARI | 106.0 | 2.97 |
| 8 | Johnny Cueto | 104.1 | 18 | SFG | 111.2 | 4.51 |
| 9 | Jacob deGrom | 103.1 | 17 | NYM | 111.0 | 3.65 |
| 10 | Jeff Samardzija | 103.1 | 18 | SFG | 118.0 | 4.58 |
| 11 | Dylan Bundy | 102.9 | 18 | BAL | 108.0 | 4.33 |
| 12 | Tanner Roark | 102.6 | 17 | WSN | 100.2 | 5.27 |
| 13 | Jose Berrios | 102.2 | 11 | MIN | 71.1 | 3.53 |
| 14 | Yu Darvish | 102.2 | 19 | TEX | 118.2 | 3.49 |
| 15 | Alex Cobb | 101.2 | 18 | TBR | 115.1 | 3.75 |
| 16 | Stephen Strasburg | 101.2 | 18 | WSN | 112.2 | 3.43 |
| 17 | Eduardo Rodriguez | 101.0 | 10 | BOS | 61.0 | 3.54 |
| 18 | Trevor Bauer | 100.7 | 17 | CLE | 92.2 | 5.24 |
| 19 | Ervin Santana | 100.7 | 18 | MIN | 120.1 | 2.99 |
| 20 | Clayton Kershaw | 100.2 | 19 | LAD | 132.1 | 2.18 |
| 21 | Zack Greinke | 100.1 | 18 | ARI | 116.1 | 2.86 |
| 22 | Michael Fulmer | 100.0 | 17 | DET | 115.2 | 3.19 |
