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Here's why 200-inning pitchers are an endangered species

He should get there, so long as he stays off the disabled list. In the last two seasons, both interrupted by injury for Kershaw, no Dodgers pitcher recorded 200 innings.

Kershaw is a special pitcher for plenty of reasons, but throwing 200 innings should not be one of them. This is not about asking a pitcher to throw a complete game.

This is about a pitcher getting 600 outs over 30 starts. That's 20 outs per game, or 6 2/3 innings. To which the new wave of baseball thinker tends to say: No way.

In 2005, there were 50 major league pitchers that threw 200 innings.