Editing Denny McLain (section)

==Career statistics==
In a 10-year major-league career, McLain won 131 games against 91 losses. His career earned run average was 3.39 and he recorded 1,282 strikeouts in 1,886 innings pitched.  McLain was a three-time All-Star and won the Cy Young Award twice in his career.  Because he relied so much on his fastball, he also surrendered numerous home runs, leading the American League in home runs allowed in three consecutive years (1966–1968).<ref name=statistics/><ref name=Rushin/>

Since McLain's 31-win season, only two other pitchers have approached the 30-game milestone ([[Steve Carlton]] won 27 games in 1972 and [[Bob Welch (baseball)|Bob Welch]] also with 27 victories in 1990).<ref name=Amy>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IysDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70 |title=Will Majors Ever Produce Another 30-Game Winner? |last1=Niedzielka |first1=Amy |date=August 1993 |magazine=Baseball Digest |access-date=December 23, 2011 }}</ref> With Major League Baseball teams transitioning from the four-man pitching rotation of McLain's era to five-man rotations, and with the increased reliance on relief pitchers, some observers believe that another 30-game winner may not occur because of the way the game is played today.<ref name=Year/><ref name=Amy/>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[Win (baseball statistics)|W]]
! [[Win (baseball statistics)|L]]
! [[Win (baseball statistics)|WP]]
! [[Games pitched|GP]]
! [[Games started|GS]]
! [[Complete game|CG]]
! [[Shutouts in baseball|SHO]]
! [[Save (baseball)|SV]]
! [[Innings pitched|IP]]
! [[Hit (baseball)|H]]
! [[Run (baseball)|R]]
! [[Earned run|ER]]
! [[Base on balls|BB]]
! [[Strikeout|SO]]
! [[Earned run average|ERA]]
! [[Walks plus hits per inning pitched|WHIP]]
|-
| 131
| 91
| .590
| 280
| 264
| 105
| 29
| 2
| 1,886.0
| 1,646
| 778
| 711
| 548
| 1,282
| 3.39
| 1.16
|}