Though once a standard feat often accomplished by multiple pitchers on the same team, increased bullpen usage and the rise of sabermetrics have made the 200-inning season much more of a rarity.
Although it feels like forever ago, the standard in baseball for generations was that a starting pitcher would aim to complete the game every time he took the mound, with only poor performance or injury getting in the way of a complete game.
While it’s been decades since the days of Nolan Ryan and 300-inning pitchers, starters would still routinely throw well over 200 innings a season into the 2010’s, even as advanced metrics and stronger bullpen pitchers typically led to shorter leashes.
The past 10 years have seen a speedy erosion of this precedent, however, with only a small handful of pitchers reaching the milestone each year – sometimes not even including the highest-regarded pitchers.
Take 2025 for an example, which saw both Cy Young Award winners in Tarik Skubal and Paul Skenes finish their seasons below 200 innings, at 195.1 innings and 187.2 innings, respectively.
Despite both Skubal and Skenes falling short, three starters across MLB still reached the milestone, showing that despite its relative rarity today, it hasn’t fallen completely out of favor like the 200-hit season has for position players.
While no team is in a 200-inning drought that rings all that significant, it’s been over half-a-decade for over half of the league’s teams since they’ve had a pitcher toss 200 innings.
Starting with the pitchers who reached the benchmark in 2025, here’s a look at every MLB team’s most recent starting pitcher to throw for 200 innings, along with the season accomplished and the amount of innings thrown:
- San Francisco Giants – Logan Webb – 207.0 – 2025
- Boston Red Sox – Garrett Crochet – 205.1 – 2025
- Philadelphia Phillies – Cristopher Sánchez – 202.0 – 2025
- Seattle Mariners – Logan Gilbert – 208.2 – 2024
- Kansas City Royals – Seth Lugo – 206.2 – 2024
- Arizona Diamondbacks – Zac Gallen – 210.0 – 2023
- New York Yankees – Gerrit Cole – 209.0 – 2023
- St. Louis Cardinals – Miles Mikolas – 201.1 – 2023
- Toronto Blue Jays – Chris Bassitt – 200.0 – 2023
- Miami Marlins – Sandy Alcantara – 228.2 – 2022
- Milwaukee Brewers – Corbin Burnes – 202.0 – 2022
- Houston Astros – Framber Valdez – 201.1 – 2022
- Cleveland Guardians – Shane Bieber – 200.0 – 2022
- Los Angeles Dodgers – Walker Buehler – 207.2 – 2021
- Washington Nationals – Stephen Strasburg – 209.0 – 2019
- Texas Rangers – Lance Lynn and Mike Minor – 208.1 – 2019
- New York Mets – Jacob deGrom – 204.0 – 2019
- Minnesota Twins – José Berríos – 200.1 – 2019
- Chicago White Sox – James Shields – 204.2 – 2018
- Colorado Rockies – Kyle Freeland – 202.1 – 2018
- Pittsburgh Pirates – Gerrit Cole – 203.0 – 2017
- Tampa Bay Rays – Chris Archer – 201.0 – 2017
- Detroit Tigers – Justin Verlander – 227.2 – 2016
- Chicago Cubs – Jon Lester – 202.2 – 2016
- Athletics – Sonny Gray – 208.0 – 2015
- Los Angeles Angels – Garrett Richards – 207.1 – 2015
- Atlanta Braves – Shelby Miller – 205.1 – 2015
- San Diego Padres – James Shields – 202.1 – 2015
- Cincinnati Reds – Johnny Cueto – 243.1 – 2014
- Baltimore Orioles – Chris Tillman – 207.1 – 2014

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