Milestone Watch, 2012: Yovani Gallardo

by Kyle Lobner on Feb 16, 2012 2:13 PM CST in Conversation Starters

Yovani Gallardo is coming off what you could call the best season of his career. He posted a career-low 3.52 ERA while pitching a career-high 207.1 innings in 2012, earning Cy Young votes for the first time and making three appearances in the postseason.

Since missing nearly the entire 2008 season Gallardo has been pretty durable, making at least 30 starts in each of the last three seasons. If he extends the streak to four in 2012, he'll only be the fourth Brewer to do it:*

Pitcher	Seasons	Years
Jim Slaton	5	1973-77**
Teddy Higuera	4	1985-88
Scott Karl	4	1996-99

* - Mike Caldwell did it five times in six years from 1978-83, with the lone exception being the strike-shortened 1981 season.
** - Slaton made 34 starts as a Tiger in 1978, then came back and made 31 again as a Brewer in 1979.

Gallardo is also currently sixth on the Brewer all-time list with 732 strikeouts. It's unlikely he'll break 1000 this year, but he could move up three spots if he strikes out 200 again:

Pitcher	Strikeouts	Needed To Pass
Ben Sheets	1206	475
Teddy Higuera	1081	349
Jim Slaton	929	198
Moose Haas	800	69
Chris Bosio	749	18
Yovani Gallardo	732	n/a

Gallardo is already, by the way, the only Brewer ever to record three 200 strikeout seasons.

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Sheets

It really is quite impressive the numbers he was able to put up around all of the injuries.

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by MadJimiBrewha on Feb 16, 2012 4:08 PM CST via Android app reply actions

If only

we could have had a couple more seasons of 2004 Sheeter. His best stuff came for some pretty awful teams, except for 2008.

by mpbMKE on Feb 16, 2012 4:41 PM CST up reply actions

Sheets did

Have a stretch of 3, 200+ IP seasons. He was a workhouse early in his career.

Streak Breakers.com

by Flanyboy on Feb 16, 2012 8:50 PM CST via mobile reply actions

Yeah, there are a fair number of guys that have done three.

Just very few that have reached four.

Now that's great tasting chicken!

by Kyle Lobner on Feb 16, 2012 9:32 PM CST up reply actions

Followed by mounting injuries.

by mpbMKE on Feb 17, 2012 2:56 PM CST up reply actions

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