Trevor Williams Is Flirting With History

Trevor Williams is quite possibly the hottest pitcher in baseball, and he may end up in the record books because of it.

Williams kept rolling Wednesday, striking out a career high eight batters in his six shutout innings of work in a 2-0 Pirates’ win. He has a 0.84 ERA since the All-Star game (43 IP, 4 ER), which is the best in baseball. It’s so good, in fact, that it’s less than half of what NL Cy Young award favorites Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom have posted. When you pitch this well for an extended period of time, you’re bound to flirt with history, and Williams is doing just that.

Over the last 100 years, there have been 19 seasons where a Pirates’ pitcher has pitched at least 60 innings…