300-win club

In Major League Baseball, the 300-win club is the group of pitchers who have won 300 or more games. Twenty-four pitchers have reached this milestone. This list does not include Bobby Mathews who won 297 in the major leagues plus several more in 1869 and 1870 before the major leagues were established in 1871. Early in the history of professional baseball, many of the rules favored the pitcher over the batter; the distance pitchers threw to home plate was shorter than today, and pitchers were able to use foreign substances to alter the direction of the ball. Four more pitchers joined the club in the first quarter of the 20th century: Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Eddie Plank, and Grover Cleveland Alexander. If a modern-day pitcher won 20 games per season for 25 seasons, he would still be 11 games short of Young's mark.

Only three pitchers—Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn, and Early Wynn—joined the 300-win club between 1924 and 1982, which may be explained by a number of factors: the abolition of the spitball; World War II military service, such as Bob Feller's; and the growing importance of the home run in the game. Randy Johnson, for example, won more games in his 40s than he did in his 20s.

Since 1990, only four pitchers have joined the 300-win club: Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Randy Johnson. Changes in the game in the last decade of the 20th century have made attaining 300 career wins difficult, perhaps more so than during the mid-20th century. The four-man starting rotation has given way to a five-man rotation, which gives starting pitchers fewer chances to pick up wins.

Recording 300 career wins has been seen as a guaranteed admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame. All pitchers with 300 wins have been elected to the Hall of Fame and lost votes from that total in . Clemens fell off the ballot in 2022 and can only be elected via the players' Contemporary Baseball Era ballot of the Veterans Committee. Clemens' future election is seen as uncertain because of his alleged links to use of performance-enhancing drugs. Many observers expect the club to gain few, if any, members in the foreseeable future. Ten members of the 300-win club are also members of the 3,000 strikeout club.

Members

Pitcher	Wins	Date	Team	Seasons
Name of the pitcher
Career wins
Date of the player's 300th win
The pitcher's team for his 300th win
The seasons this player played in the major leagues
Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Denotes player who is still active--

Pitcher	Wins	Date	Team	Seasons	Ref
511		Boston Americans	1890–1911
417		Washington Senators	1907–1927
373		Chicago Cubs	1911–1930
373		New York Giants	1900–1916
365		Pittsburgh Alleghenys	1875, 1879–1892
363		Milwaukee Braves	1942, 1946–1965
362		Boston Beaneaters	1890–1901, 1904–1906
355		Chicago Cubs	1986–2008
354		New York Yankees	1984–2007
342		New York Giants (PL)	1880–1893
329		Philadelphia Phillies	1965–1988
328		Cleveland Spiders	1882–1894
326		St. Louis Terriers	1901–1917
324		Texas Rangers	1966, 1968–1993
324		California Angels	1966–1988
318		New York Yankees	1964–1987
314		Seattle Mariners	1962–1983
311		Chicago White Sox	1967–1986
310		Cincinnati Reds	1880–1891
307		New York Giants	1880–1892
305		New York Mets	1987–2008
303		San Francisco Giants	1988–2009
300		Cleveland Indians	1939–1944, 1946–1963
300		Boston Red Sox	1925–1941