Good morning!
With Lucas Giolito's 2022 season officially in the rear-view mirror, the right-hander currently has the eighth-most starts of any White Sox starting pitcher dating back to 2000. Assuming the team keeps him around for his final year before free agency, a healthy and effective 2023 season would have him moving all the way up to fourth-most, as the starter currently occupying that spot has 169 and will presumably be pitching for a different team next season.
I suppose the title of this post is a bit misleading: today's Sporcle isn't just about the White Sox start leaders, but any pitcher who started at least one game for the team since 2000. In all that's 102 names. How many can you get? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I've allotted the full 20 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I've provided the number of starts and the tenure of the pitcher in question. If they returned to the team over separate stints, that is not reflected in the tenure.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- Overall, the win-loss record is 1405 wins against 1418 losses.
- One pitcher leads this list in complete games with 27, while the next-closest is 14, followed by 9.
- That same pitcher, if you take his entire career, has 33 CGs. That's fourth-most during this period behind C.C. Sabathia (38), Livan Hernandez (39), and Roy Halladay (65!).
- These 102 pitchers have combined for 38 saves in their career (not including a particularly famous postseason save)
All data from stathead.com
