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Name 22 pitchers.


So far, the Jays have had, over the years, 22 pitchers record one and only one season of 10 or more wins in a Toronto uniform. So you're not looking for the Halladays and Stiebs, or even the Carpenters and Leals. You want the guys who only managed double-digit Jay wins once.

Hints: there were 2 in the 1970s, 3 in the 1980s, 6 in the 1990s, 10 in the 2000s, and 1 in the 2010s.

Go to it!

As always, no wagering. (And try to do it from memory; more fun that way.)

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eungar - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:21 PM EDT (#255373) #
gustavo chacin, brett cecil, david cone??, jesse litsch, estabon loaiza
thats all i could think of for right now.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:23 PM EDT (#255374) #
Not Cone, but the others are all correct.
mathesond - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:28 PM EDT (#255377) #
Dave Lemanczyk?
Jesse Jefferson?
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:29 PM EDT (#255378) #
Lemanczyk yes, Jefferson no.
Anders - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:36 PM EDT (#255379) #
Okay I haven't looked at any responses yet, and I can't do before the late 90s, but: Mark Hendrickson, Esteban Loaiza, Miguel Batista, Gustavo Chacin, Dustin McGowan, Woody Williams, Erik Hanson, Steve Trachsel, and I'll guess Brandon Morrow for the 2010s.
fozzy - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:38 PM EDT (#255380) #
Josh Towers had that one inexplicable season where he won 13 games and pitched over 200 innings (2005?).
Mike Green - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:41 PM EDT (#255381) #
Jerry Garvin?
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:41 PM EDT (#255382) #
Of those not mentioned before, Batista, McGowan, Williams, Hanson, and Towers are correct; Hendrickson, Trachsel, and Morrow are not.
fozzy - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:42 PM EDT (#255383) #
Didn't Pete Walker win double digits as a swingman? All I can remember is that being a dreadful year for the pitchers, Halladay's breakout excluded.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:44 PM EDT (#255384) #
Garvin and Walker also correct.

The remaining pitchers are all from the '80s, '90s, and early '00s.

John Northey - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:50 PM EDT (#255385) #
Dennis Lamp's 1985 when he went 11-0 has to be his only 10+ win season I'd think.

Mark Eichhorn I bet was a once only - 1986 when he threw 157 innings and won, I think, 14 games.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:52 PM EDT (#255386) #
Lamp is correct, but Eichhorn also won 10 in 1987!
eungar - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:03 PM EDT (#255391) #
tanyan sturtz??
Hodgie - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:08 PM EDT (#255392) #
I originally thought Trachsel as well and then realized it was only because each game he pitched felt like 10 games.

For relievers I am throwing out setup men Quantrill, Timlin and Ward. For starters, not that I am bitter but I am thinking Stewart and Morris must be close as well as good friend Al Leiter.

Moe - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:10 PM EDT (#255394) #
What about some of those non-closer RP with a lot of appearances? Frasor, Quantril?

In the 2000s, they will mostly have to be in very early years, later on there was more a bit stability (Halladay, Lilly, AJ etc). So Lidle, Loiza would be good guesses.
  
perlhack - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT (#255395) #
What about Dave Stewart and Jack Morris in the early 1990s. Morris had the 20-win season, but followed it with a not-20 win season. I don't recall how Stewart did in 1994 as a Blue Jay.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:14 PM EDT (#255396) #
Quantrill and Timlin are correct, as are Stewart, Morris, and Leiter. Ward never won 10, nor did Frasor. Lidle is correct.
perlhack - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:15 PM EDT (#255397) #
Note to self: type faster, or at least type faster than Hodgie.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:32 PM EDT (#255398) #
The three remaining include two lefthanders from the late '80s and a starter from the Ash years.
John Northey - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:35 PM EDT (#255400) #
The two left handers...

Jeff Musselman maybe? My other guesses were either Mike Flannagan or John Cerutti but I think Cerutti did win 10+ twice.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:36 PM EDT (#255401) #
Musselman and Flanagan are correct; Cerutti won 10 twice.
John Northey - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:46 PM EDT (#255404) #
Woohoo! My guesses with all 3 of the left handers was right, even Cerutti getting 10 twice, although I thought it was 11. How to tell I watched way too much baseball in the 80's.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:51 PM EDT (#255406) #
Well, specifically he had 11 in both '87 and '89; I was speaking in general terms.
ryan_the_canuck - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:05 PM EDT (#255415) #
Starter from the Ash years - I'm thinking Frank Castillo? Played his way onto the team in spring training and won something like his first seven starts, wheels started to fall off after that but wouldn't be surprised if he made it to 10.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:16 PM EDT (#255416) #
Frank Castillo it is! That's all of them; well done.
vonwafer234 - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT (#255418) #
Gustavo Chacin, Brett Cecil, Jesse Litsch, Estabon Loaiza, Dustin McGowan, Josh Towers, Miguel Batista, Cory Lidle, Pete Walker, Paul Quantrill, Frank Castillo, Woody Williams, Erik Hanson, Al Leiter, Dave Stewart, Jack Morris, Mike Timlin, Mike Flanagan, Jeff Musselman, Dennis Lamp, Dave Lemanczyk, Jerry Garvin.
vonwafer234 - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:29 PM EDT (#255419) #
Damn I got here too late haha!
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:50 PM EDT (#255423) #
Was all that from memory?
Anders - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 04:19 PM EDT (#255426) #
Was all that from memory?

I call shenanigans, there is literally no way anyone could go 22/22 from memory. What's the point of just looking it up, we all have google...

eldarion - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 04:19 PM EDT (#255427) #
Hmmmm...John Frascatore?
ryan_the_canuck - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 04:54 PM EDT (#255432) #
Turns out I was right about Castillo as the last name, but wrong about pretty much everything else I said (though he *did* make the team out of spring training due to an injury). In fact, Castillo started the year 1-5 before coming on strong and finishing 10-5. Suspect I was mixing up his story with that of Chris Michalak, who came one year later.
Matthew E - Monday, April 30 2012 @ 09:02 PM EDT (#255453) #
Frascatore's high-water mark with the Jays was '99, when he went 7-1 in relief, with his only career save.
vonwafer234 - Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 04:27 AM EDT (#255480) #
Haha yeah it was. I think I got all 22 of em. I have something called eidetic memory which allows me to memorize things on the spot without much work. I use to do alot of research on the Jays a couple of years ago reading and watching vintage videos on a whole bunch of things from when we first started, to how and why the trade of Roberto Alomar went down to Carlos Delgado being converted from a catcher to 1B to Jayson Werth starting out as a catcher in the minors and not panning out. I know, I scare myself too sometimes.
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