by Tim Anderson

Created on: September 08, 2008

Part 1: http://www.helium.com/items/1174050-baseball-records

*Note: Wrote this 2 months ago, so stats are old

Wins

300 Wins:

1. Mike Mussina
Current Wins- 261
Age: 39
Everyone was saying how Tom Glavine might have been the last pitcher ever to win 300 games. However, they underestimated one man. A man who has never won 20 games in a season; however, he still wins in mass amounts. There is talks that the Moose will have his first 20th win season this year. This is amazing considering that he may have finally reached his win peak at age 39. He currently needs only 39 more wins to make it to the hallowed 300 wins plateau. If he does win 20 this year, this will put him at 270 for his career. He will be at age 40 needing only 30 more wins to make it to 300. He can win 10 more til the age of 43. He can pitch that long. Jamie Moyer is 45 and still pitching, Randy Johnson is 44, and Kenny Rogers is 43.

Saves

500 Saves:

1. Mariano Rivera
Current Saves: 466
Age: 38

To start off the pitcher's edition of Going Clubbing, we have a pair of veteran teammates. Mariano Rivera is currently one of the, if not the best closer in the MLB. And, at the age of 38, he is pitching one of the best seasons of his career which has given him MVP and Cy Young talk. He has converted in all 23 of his save chances. In his appearances this year, he has a 1.12 ERA and an outstanding .645 WHIP. He is still throwing his cutter dominantly and affectively. Now, he would need 34 more saves to get to 500. Since 1997, Mariano has never had lower than 30 saves in a season. He has had 40 or more saves 5 times in his career as well as a 50 save season once. He is on pace right now for a high 40 or maybe even another 50 save season. If he converts for only 40 saves this year, which puts him at 483 for his career. He would only need another 17 save season to reach that feat. As I said before, he has never had a full season as a closer without 30 saves. He will get 500 saves and will climb up the all time list as he makes his way to about 540 saves.

400 Saves:

1. Francisco Rodriguez
Current Saves: 181
Age: 26
At the prime young age of 26, K-Rod already has 181 saves. At the age of 26, Trevor Hoffman had only 25 saves, Mariano Rivera only had 5, and The Eck only had 3. I know what you are thinking. "Why is he only getting 400 saves when you said Mariano is getting 500, Hoffman has 600, and The Eck has 390?" Well, it is simply because we have not seen much of Frankie. The main problem is if he can keep this up. We don't know

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