Quiz – what’s old is new again (stumped)

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The first list are pitchers who began their careers between 1893 and 1919. The second list are pitchers who played their entire careers between 1920 and 2000.

For both lists, only these pitchers had a particular career accomplishment. What is it?

Rk Player Player
1 Babe Adams Jim Merritt
2 Noodles Hahn Fergie Jenkins
3 Deacon Phillippe Ron Guidry
4 Eddie Plank Jim Bunning
5 Walter Johnson Bert Blyleven
6 Mordecai Brown Gaylord Perry
7 Chief Bender Tom Seaver
8 Smoky Joe Wood Juan Marichal
9 Christy Mathewson Don Drysdale
10 Addie Joss Sandy Koufax
11 Rube Waddell
12 Ed Walsh
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Generated 5/21/2014.

Hint: while rare in the above periods, this feat has recently become more common, accomplished by 15 retired pitchers active since 2001.

I evidently stumped our readers with this one. The solution is that, among starting pitchers with 1000+ IP careers played entirely between 1893 and 2000, only the quiz players had a career FIP either below their SO/BB ratio, or no more than 20% higher than their SO/BB ratio. More after the jump:

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Game notes from a light Monday slate, May 19

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Reds 4, @Nationals 3 (15 inn.) — With both sides running out of bodies, Todd Frazier’s 2-run shot broke a tie in the 15th, and the struggling Logan Ondrusek survived some loud outs in his second inning of work to preserve the win. The Reds weathered Washington’s winning bids in the 12th and 14th with great defensive plays, by Brandon Phillips and Billy Hamilton, each ending the frame with a man on third.

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