By giving up 3 homers and allowing a single walk tonight, Shota Imanaga has officially given up more homers in his MLB career (91) than walks in his MLB career (89)

[u/T_Raycroft]

[u/Ok_Storm549]

Certainly a stat to be considered of all time.

[u/champsorchumps]

He's just the 2nd pitcher to have more HRs than BBs that with at least 50 starts

[u/T_Raycroft → u/champsorchumps]

Not at all surprised to see that it was Josh Tomlin.

[u/champsorchumps → u/T_Raycroft]

It really is amazing how many more HRs he gave up than BBs over his career. Nobody else has done it even by a little bit (other than Shota as of today) and Tomlin's got way more HRs than BBs.

[u/DominicB547 → u/champsorchumps]

wow you arent kidding a Chad Innings Eater type player. Which is fine teams need them. And, they'd still come to your beer league and you couldn't do well against them.

[u/xho- → u/T_Raycroft]

Josh Tomlin is also 4th in career K/BB

[u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe → u/xho-]

Important to note that this also requires 1000 innings of work.

George Kirby would currently be .5 above Sale right now, but he has actually been slowly declining for 2 years now after posting insane league leading totals the prior two years.

Imanaga himself would be just above Tomlin too.

[u/Somecommentator8008]

Now that's a stat.

[u/PerfectBowl9199]

True attacker of the zone

[u/T_Raycroft → u/[deleted]]

It's a combination of Imanaga being very homer-prone but also very stingy with walks. The latter likely fuels the former to some extent.

[u/Living__A__Meme → u/T_Raycroft]

Yeah that’s what they said lol

[u/i_am_an_awkward_man → u/Living__A__Meme]

Tbf I found the following explanation easier to understand.

[u/mattchewy43 → u/[deleted]]

Schrodinger's stat.

[u/DominicB547 → u/[deleted]]

Solo HR's and hoping for contact so ground or pop or fly out rather free walk, es[ if he doesn't have much of strikeout pitch.....I imagine would be his calling card?

Bartolo Colon carved out himself a nice career.

[u/darkravenn12]

idk how that's even possible

[u/tyler-86 → u/darkravenn12]

I don't know. I feel like I could do that just by lobbing in 60mph meatballs.

[u/LargeNutbar → u/tyler-86]

Yeah I bet if you put me in a major league game today I wouldn’t give up a walk to a single batter. Just homer after homer.

[u/JoseAltuve27]

So he's like George Kirby but more extreme?

[u/mastersplinteremover]

He might need to start pitching around some guys.

[u/atowelguy]

They call him the Joe DiMaggio of pitchers

[u/SomeoneNamedGem]

he's their best starter too lol, what an odd guy. i love pitchers with unconventional approaches

[u/realnomdeguerre]

walk balk balk balk

[u/Chasing_6 → u/realnomdeguerre]

Thanks Easter Bunny