Shut Out

Wednesday, February 07 2007 @ 04:05 AM EST

Contributed by: Magpie

I have pointless Blue Jays trivia, if anyone wants to play...

I've been poring over the career pitching numbers, in connection with some Future Opus, and for some reason I got absolutely fixated on complete game shutouts.

Over these 30 years, the Jays pitchers have tossed 133 complete game shutouts, and 35 different pitchers were involved. One of them, Dave Stieb, accounted for 30 all by himself. That's the team record least likely to be broken, that and Stieb's career mark for plunking opposition hitters.

Anyway, as Tim the Enchanter once said

"Answer me these questions three."

1. Which Blue Jay pitcher has made the most career starts without ever pitching a shutout?

2. Of the 35 men who have actually pitched shutouts, who has the best ratio of shutouts to starts - i.e., the highest percentage of this guy's career starts were shutouts?

3. Who has the worst/lowest (of the 35 men who have actually pitched a shutout?)

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