Curt Shilling Retires

One of the game’s most recognizable faces and most dominating pitchers has announced his retirement. Curt Shilling, age 43, has decided to call it quits after a long, distinguished career in Major League Baseball.  He announced his retirement on his blog- typical of Curt Shilling these days- and you can read a nice little article about the retirement at CBSSports.com.  Here’s to Curt Shilling. May you have a happy retirement. We all hope this doesn’t turn into a Roger Clemens/Brett Farve deal. How about looking at some Shilling stats? Here are some highlights, compiled from Baseball-reference.com (bloody socks not included).

  • In his 20-year career in the Major Leagues, Shilling has three times been runner-up for the Cy Young Award.
  • Shilling is 11-2 in postseason play and has a combined 2.23 ERA in the playoffs.
  • He was selected six times to the All-Star Game, but only played in three of those games.
  • Shilling has won the Lou Gehrig Award, the Babe Ruth Award, the Branch Rickey Award, the Hutch Award and the Roberto Clemente Award.
  • In 2001 and 2004 he led the league in wins, and in 2001 he was the World Series Co-MVP along with Randy Johnson.
  • Although his ERA has been low as it can get (2.35, 2.97, 2.98, 2.95), Shilling has never earned the lowest ERA.
  • In 1998 Chilling threw 15 complete games.

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Posted in General on March 24, 2009

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