I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how many people noticed on September 27, 2008, when Jamie Moyer and Greg Maddux, by posting wins over the Nationals and Giants, respectively, reached a combined 601 wins for their two careers.<\/p>\n
At the close of 2008, Moyer had 246 wins, and Maddux had 355 (Moyer added 12 more in 2009, but number 355 was the last win for Maddux). Cubs fans probably remember that the two pitchers were teammates starting out their careers with the Cubs in 1986. Unfortunately for the Cubs, all but about 150 of their wins have been for other teams.<\/p>\n
Still, in June of \u00e2\u20ac\u212286 they were both with the Iowa Cubs, the AAA farm team in Des Moines. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think two prospects in the same organization at the same time have ever come close to the 600 plus wins Maddux and Moyer have wound up achieving.<\/p>\n
A June 13, 1986 game story in the Omaha World-Herald<\/em> began like this: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Iowa Cubs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 M&M boys-Jamie Moyer and Greg Maddux-are two young pitchers with sweet futures.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n The writer, Steve Pivovar, couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have known how right he was. Moyer, 23, had just given up four hits to the hometown Kansas City farm team on a Wednesday, then Maddux, 20, had a no-hitter through 6 2\/3rd innings in Omaha on Thursday to get his first AAA win. Omaha Manager John Boles said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maddux is the best pitcher I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen all year. He had more life on his fastball tonight than anybody we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen all year. If he stays healthy, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to have his future. He threw some fastballs that just exploded. And his movement. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one thing to throw in the upper 80s and the 90s. But he had good life on the ball . . . he was nasty out there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Omaha pitching coach Frank Funk said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He looked like he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been pitching for 20 years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Iowa Manager Larry Cox added: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re two of our top prospects. They both have pretty good arms and, for as young as they are, they both know how to pitch.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have a couple more good kids down in Double-A-Drew Hall and Jackie Davidson. But these two are in a class by themselves. These guys and the guys in Double-A probably have the same stuff. But these two know how to pitch.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Both he and Jamie are battlers. They’re great competitors, and they have great intensity when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re out there on the mound.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n I’m printing this today because Moyer’s scheduled to make his first start at age 47 this afternoon. But, you can read more about Greg Maddux in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc86 here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arne Christensen runs Misc. Baseball<\/a>, a blog of general baseball history, and 1995 Mariners<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how many people noticed on September 27, 2008, when Jamie Moyer and Greg Maddux, by posting wins over the Nationals and Giants, respectively, reached a combined 601 wins for their two careers. At the close of 2008, Moyer had 246 wins, and Maddux had 355 (Moyer added 12 more in 2009, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5741,1389,4390],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-1986-iowa-cubs","tag-greg-maddux","tag-jamie-moyer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}