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What Has Happened to Major League Baseball?

 

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Boras Corporation (@borascorp) Blake Snell of the San Francisco Giants, the league’s reigning Cy Young Award winner, pitched the first no-hit game of his career a couple of nights ago, beating the Cincinnati Reds 3-0. Not only was it Snell’s first career no-hitter, it was the first complete game of his career. What has major league baseball come to when a starting pitcher wins a Cy Young award without throwing one single complete game?! It’s not as common as you might think for a reigning Cy Young winner to throw a no-hitter. It’s only happened five times before. Going back to when I was growing up watching baseball, Bob Gibson did it in 1971. As the Cy Young winner in 1970, Gibson pitched 20 complete games. That’s for one season. In his career, Gibson had 255 complete games. Baseball’s a totally… Read more →