Unveiling Baseball’s Untouchable Pitcher: The Secret Behind the Lowest ERA Ever Recorded
Traditionally, long before advanced metrics threatened to lessen its importance, earned run average has been the No. 1 measure of pitching performance.
Even in more recent years, ERA – along with modern data – has played a prominent role in the American and National League Cy Young races. In 2010, Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners won the AL Cy Young with just 13 wins, largely because he led Major League Baseball with a 2.27 ERA.
In 2018, Jacob deGrom of the New York Mets took home the NL Cy Young Award with only 10 victories. That’s because he also finished with a 1.70 ERA that at the time was the sixth best in a season since the mound was lowered in 1969.



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