Yesterday Jesse Hartong, the Baltimore Lords 35-year old right-handed starting pitcher, earned his 200th career win, becoming just the 4th pitcher in WPK history to reach that mark.
Hartong has reached 200 wins without ever having won more than 17 in a single season as he has been a model of consistency and with his 10th win of this season yesterday he now has double digits wins in all 14 seasons of his career. It also helps that he is a true iron man, having never suffered a single injury of any note in his big league career.
The other 200 game winners are: Jason Wilson (205), Cheol-han Lee (205), and Jake Harris (211). Cheol-han of course is now retired and Harris finds himself languishing in AAA this year at age 39 and will likely not be adding to his total. Jason Wilson is 9-6 with a 4.64 ERA this season and although he is durable he is also 39 years old so he won't likely have enough left in the tank to approach 250 career wins.
So don't bet against the 35-year old Hartong to be the first WPK pitcher to get to 250 career wins before his career is over.