major league pitcher holding record for most saves in a season?
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Thigpen. 57 in 1990. \nIt wore his arm out thoguh. He was never an effective reliever again. \n\nHoffman was close in 98 with 53, Rivera twice over 50 with 50 in 01 and 53 in 04, Eck with 51 in 92. I think thats everybody who's topped 50 saves in a season.\n\nForgot Gagne and Smoltz who each got 55.
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106? Not acccording to Baseball Almanac. \n\nhttp://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/fastest-pitcher-in-baseball.shtml\n\n4 Pitchers tied at 102 in a Major League game, and career minor leaguer Steve Dalkowski as probably the fastest of all time.
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First things first:  Intrepid18's answer is moronic.  First he states that Barry Bonds should be awarded the record because we don't know how many people are ueing steroids, then he uses as his source Jose Canseco, thenin the next breath he states that Jose Canseco cann't be trusted.  Geez, with that kind of gymnastic logic it is hard to even respond.\n\nOf course Bonds should not be mentioned in the same breath as Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron.  It makes no difference HOW many players have "juiced up" today.  The fact that a lot of people have juiced up is irrelevant.  The fact that Bonds has juiced up IS relevant because he is the only one challenging the record.  There is little doubt that Bonds will pass Ruth, probably by this time next week, but i don't think any serious sports scholars think he will remain healthy enough to challenge Aaron's 755.  Bonds simply isn't healthy enough to last another year.  He has virtually no chance of catching Aaron this year.  He is currently at 712, which leaves him 43 shy of tying Aaron and 44 shy of passing him.  Bonds is not going to get enough good pitches this season to hit 45 ringers.\n\nIf by some miracle Bonds does pass Aaron his name should have an asterisk next to his name with a note that "performance enhancing drugs were employed."
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According to the official MLB rules book:\n\nSAVES FOR RELIEF PITCHERS \n10.20\nCredit a pitcher with a save when he meets all three of the following conditions: (1) He is the finishing pitcher in a game won by his club; and (2) He is not the winning pitcher; and (3) He qualifies under one of the following conditions: (a) He enters the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitches for at least one inning; or (b) He enters the game, regardless of the count, with the potential tying run either on base, or at bat, or on deck (that is, the potential tying run is either already on base or is one of the first two batsmen he faces); or (c) He pitches effectively for at least three innings. No more than one save may be credited in each game.
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This is Craig Biggio's 19th year with Astros.  He is the current player with longest streak.\n\nDon't know if he is the one in history though.
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The last player to hit for the cycle was Randy Winn of the San Francisco Giants did it back on August 15th of 2005.  \n\nChad Moeller had one on April 27th but that was back in 2004.
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At 2597, Reggie Jackson has the career record safely all to himself. He has 400 more than second place Sammy Sosa. Adam Dunn of the Reds broke the single season record in 2004 with 195. Jose Hernandez and Preston Wilson almost broke the single season record in the last few years.
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Pujols.  He hit 14 homes in April, which is a new record.  Looks like there's only more to come.
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Reggie Jackson with 2,597. It's the only major league record he owns. The funny thing is this, I met him a couple of times and I actually saw him hit 3 home runs at a game I attended in Anaheim Stadium against the KC Royals, it was during Bo Jackson's rookie year. Jackson lived in So Cal for awhile after he retired. He averaged 470 at-bats per season, so if you divide the number of strikeouts by the average number of at-bats, that equals 5.5 years of doing nothing but stiking out!
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No, I do not think that he will break the single season record. However, he definetly has a shot at breaking the all time record. He is at a blistering pace so far in his young career, if Barry Bonds breaks the record, he wont make it far past 755. On the other hand, Albert Pujols has the capability to hit 800 homers.
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I would think this "accomplishment" has been achieved many, many times. I suspect most pitchers have struck out in both their first and final at-bats, and I'd have to believe that many other players have flailed in both at-bats as well.\n\nIn fact, given a few minutes, I suspect I could find several players whose only major league at-bats were all strikeouts.
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Runs Batted In. Most in a season is Hack Wilson of the Cubs with 190!
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NO, there is not!! He is just incredible. Today against Tom Gordon of the Phillies, Big Papi hit his 8th career walk off home run!! That must be a record!!\n\nGo Sox!!
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Check @ Baseball America.com  They might have someone with the records. \n\nThey focus on minor league, collegiate, and high school baseball.
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In a career - Hank Aaron (755).  In a season - Barry Bonds (73).
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No, but a manager can be guilty of overusing a reliever. Mike Marshall of the Dodgers pitched in 106 games in 1974. That's the ML record for appearances by a pitcher in a season. Don't really know about minors, college, high school and little league. I speak only of the bigs...
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Ichiro Suzuki by a large margin.\nHe's the only hitter with 200 hits in every season since the 2001 season.    He led the majors in 3 of the seasons, with such totals as 242 in 2001 and a whopping 262 in 2004.  He has a total of 1354 hits.  The second most is Juan Pierre with 1182. Albert Pujols is third with 1159 in that time frame.