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Shaun P brings up a good point:
Mike, I'm curious . . . Given that Garland has just 72Ks in 153 IP (or as many as Scot Shields has in 67 1/3IP, or 1 less than B.J. Ryan has in 48 1/3 IP, but I digress), what's the lowest number of Ks for anyone who's ever won 26+ games? Are the lists as short as some of the tables above?
Jon Garland projects to 105 Ks and 223 innings. He has averaged 4.24 strikeouts per nine innings. How many pitchers have averaged fewer than that and won at least 26? Well, in the nineteenth century, tons of pitchers did it. Candy Cummings strike out eight, walked six, and won 35 games. So let's just look at pitchers from 1900 on:
| Name | Yr | W | L | PCT | G | SO | ERA | K/9IP |
| Eddie Rommel | 1922 | 27 | 13 | .675 | 51 | 54 | 3.28 | 1.65 |
| Joe McGinnity | 1901 | 26 | 20 | .565 | 48 | 75 | 3.56 | 1.77 |
| Carl Mays | 1921 | 27 | 9 | .750 | 49 | 70 | 3.05 | 1.87 |
| Jim Bagby | 1920 | 31 | 12 | .721 | 48 | 73 | 2.89 | 1.93 |
| Joe McGinnity | 1900 | 28 | 8 | .778 | 44 | 93 | 2.94 | 2.44 |
| Carl Mays | 1920 | 26 | 11 | .703 | 45 | 92 | 3.06 | 2.65 |
| George Uhle | 1923 | 26 | 16 | .619 | 54 | 109 | 3.77 | 2.74 |
| Joe McGinnity | 1906 | 27 | 12 | .692 | 45 | 105 | 2.25 | 2.78 |
| Alvin Crowder | 1932 | 26 | 13 | .667 | 50 | 103 | 3.33 | 2.83 |
| Joe McGinnity | 1904 | 35 | 8 | .814 | 51 | 144 | 1.61 | 3.18 |
| Eddie Cicotte | 1919 | 29 | 7 | .806 | 40 | 110 | 1.82 | 3.23 |
| Joe Bush | 1922 | 26 | 7 | .788 | 39 | 92 | 3.31 | 3.24 |
| Addie Joss | 1907 | 27 | 11 | .711 | 42 | 127 | 1.83 | 3.38 |
| Al Orth | 1906 | 27 | 17 | .614 | 45 | 133 | 2.34 | 3.53 |
| Mordecai Brown | 1908 | 29 | 9 | .763 | 44 | 123 | 1.47 | 3.54 |
| Joe McGinnity | 1903 | 31 | 20 | .608 | 55 | 171 | 2.43 | 3.55 |
| Urban Shocker | 1921 | 27 | 12 | .692 | 47 | 132 | 3.55 | 3.64 |
| Carl Hubbell | 1936 | 26 | 6 | .813 | 42 | 123 | 2.31 | 3.64 |
| George Mullin | 1909 | 29 | 8 | .784 | 40 | 124 | 2.22 | 3.68 |
| Dizzy Trout | 1944 | 27 | 14 | .659 | 49 | 144 | 2.12 | 3.68 |
| Dick Rudolph | 1914 | 26 | 10 | .722 | 42 | 138 | 2.35 | 3.69 |
| Cy Young | 1902 | 32 | 11 | .744 | 45 | 160 | 2.15 | 3.74 |
| Eddie Plank | 1912 | 26 | 6 | .813 | 37 | 110 | 2.22 | 3.81 |
| Cy Young | 1901 | 33 | 10 | .767 | 43 | 158 | 1.62 | 3.83 |
| Pete Alexander | 1916 | 33 | 12 | .733 | 48 | 167 | 1.55 | 3.86 |
| Bucky Walters | 1939 | 27 | 11 | .711 | 39 | 137 | 2.29 | 3.87 |
| Eddie Cicotte | 1917 | 28 | 12 | .700 | 49 | 150 | 1.53 | 3.89 |
| Togie Pittinger | 1902 | 27 | 16 | .628 | 46 | 174 | 2.52 | 4.02 |
| Robin Roberts | 1952 | 28 | 7 | .800 | 39 | 148 | 2.59 | 4.04 |
| Christy Mathewson | 1911 | 26 | 13 | .667 | 45 | 141 | 1.99 | 4.13 |
| Larry Cheney | 1912 | 26 | 10 | .722 | 42 | 140 | 2.85 | 4.15 |
| Dolf Luque | 1923 | 27 | 8 | .771 | 41 | 151 | 1.93 | 4.22 |
| Charley Root | 1927 | 26 | 15 | .634 | 48 | 145 | 3.76 | 4.22 |
| Bill James | 1914 | 26 | 7 | .788 | 46 | 156 | 1.90 | 4.22 |
There were 35 pitchers lower than Garland's current strikeout ratio. However, the last one lower was Robin Roberts in 1952.
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