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The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.570) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
List of Major League Baseball wins records. The following is a listing of pitching win and winning percentage records in Major League Baseball. All teams are considered to be members of the American or National Leagues, unless noted. Players denoted in boldface are still actively contributing to the record noted.
Boston Red Caps. NL. 42. 18. .700. 60. National League Champions. The all-time best single season record belongs to the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who posted baseball's only perfect record at 67–0 (57–0 against National Association of Base Ball Players clubs) in 1869, prior to Major League baseball. Their record stretched to 81–0 across ...
Cy Young, the all-time leader in career wins. This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this ...
Connie Mack in 1916. Connie Mack is the all-time leader in career wins and losses by a manager. This article contains a list of all Major League Baseball managers with at least 1,000 career regular season wins and a list of managers who have regular season win percentages of at least .540 in at least 450 games (slightly less than three full seasons).
Batting records (1875–present) Babe Ruth (left) holds the record for highest slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging while Ty Cobb (right) holds the records for highest batting average and most steals of home. Barry Bonds holds the most hitting records with ten, most notably the career home run and single-season home run records.
Jake Peavy 's 19 wins in 2007 led all National League pitchers. 2006 Cy Young Award winner Brandon Webb led the National League with 22 wins in 2008. Adam Wainwright (19 wins) and St. Louis Cardinals teammate Chris Carpenter (17 wins) were first and second in the 2009 win table, respectively. Year.
§ In 1998, because of a mid-season trade, Randy Johnson led Major League Baseball in strikeouts, but neither the AL nor the NL. Games started titles 7 Greg Maddux (1990–1993, 2000, 2003, 2005) 6 Robin Roberts (1950–1955) 6 Tom Glavine (1993, 1996, 1999–2002) 5 Bob Feller (1940–1941, 1946–1948) 5 Early Wynn (1943, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1959)