Greg Maddux and the 1000th Walk

Greg Maddux is old and his occupation drawing materialize set:

355 wins
3.16 ERA
4 Cy Young Awards
17 straightforward 15-win seasons
5008 Innings
3371 Strikeouts with exclusive 999 walks

Yeah, 999 walks. Despite pitching in the Majors for 23 eld and over 5000 innings, he did not achievement that 1000th batsman and embellish the 111th ballplayer to "accomplish" that  feat.

Here are whatever pitchers that did achievement over 1000 batters:
Al Leiter
Tim Wakefield
Mark Langston
Dave Steib
Rick Sutcliffe

What do these ballplayer every hit in common?
They were every beatific pitchers who pitched inferior than 3000 innings in their career, patch travel over 1000. They walked over 1000 hitters in inferior than 3000 innings and Maddux walked low 1000 in over 5000 innings.

5000 innings pitched is 13th prizewinning every instance and 6th of the recent era, behindhand Phil Neikro, (5404 IP, 1809 BB), Nolan Ryan (5386, 2795), Gaylord commodore (5350, 1379), Don Sutton (5282, 1343), Warren Spahn (5243, 1434) and Steve Carlton (5217, 1833).

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