Dontrelle Willis beat Roy Oswalt and the Astros, 2-1, yesterday in an old-fashioned pitchers duel. In the process, Willis ran his record to an incredible 7-0 in seven starts and lowered his major-league leading ERA to 1.08.

Mark Simon at Baseball Tonight found that Willis is just one win shy of the best starts in the last 90 years for pitchers under the age of 24 (Source: Elias Sports Bureau):

When you look at his projections for the year, it gets even more impressive:

It gets all the more impressive when you consider that Willis was 10-11 with a 4.02 ERA last season. Let's say he wins twenty games this year and lowers his ERA by three full points from last season, however improbable that may be, he would be just the fourth man to go from a .500 or worse winning percentage one year to winning 20 the next while lowering his ERA by at least 3 runs. It hasn't been done since 1934:

Given that 1.02 ERA is pretty much out of the question, how many pitchers have gone from .500 or worse to twenty wins while lowering their ERA by 2.50 runs? They have been a couple in recent history:

Now, let's look at the even nuttier side to Willis's season. He has won every game that he's pitched: 7-0 in seven starts. The most games a pitcher has won in a season in which he won every game in which pitched was six. So don't be disappointed if he does not go 33-0:

So let's say that he instead goes just 30-0. What are the most wins ever recorded by a pitcher in a season without a loss? Survey says 12:

Next, Willis is on a pace to record 14 complete games, something that has not been done in seven years and that's been just once in 14 years. Here are the only guys to do it in the last twenty years:

Finally, Willis is on course to record ten shutouts. Only 29 men have done that before and no one has done it in 19 years. Here they are: