Coming into this season only three Royals had won 11+ games in a season this decade, Paul Byrd (17, 2002), Mark Redman (11, 2005), and Brian Bannister (12, 2007). That is a depressingly low number and while I know wins aren't the greatest stat to use when evaluating pitchers (see Meche, Gil 2007) its still sad. Between 2000-2007 it was done 570 times in all of baseball - Curt Schilling by himself has three 20+ win seasons this decade. Just a sad, sad number.
Well things are on the upturn now because both Meche and Greinke have won 11 games this year representing 40% of the decade's total. They have a shot to do something that only Byrd has done and that is to win 13 or more, it would be nice if they both did it. Long-suffering KC fans who overvalue wins deserve it.
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