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Greg Maddux

Career Highlights: One of the all-time major league greats, Greg Maddux played for 23 seasons and won more games during the 1990s than any other pitcher…A four-time Cy Young Award winner, Maddux was the first pitcher in major league history to win the honor for four consecutive years (1992-95), a feat matched only by Randy Johnson...During those four consecutive seasons, Maddux had a 75-29 record with a 1.98 ERA, while allowing less than one runner per inning…He is the only pitcher in MLB history to win at least 15 games for 17 straight seasons…Maddux also was awarded a record 18 Gold Gloves during his playing days…A superb control pitcher, Maddux is eighth on the all-time career win list with 355 – since the start of the post-1920 live ball era, only Warren Spahn (363) had more career wins than Maddux…He is one of only 10 pitchers ever to achieve both 300 wins and 3,000 strikeouts…Maddux was drafted in the second round of the 1984 Major League Draft by the Chicago Cubs, where he spent the first seven years of his career (1986-1992)…In 1988, he won 18 games, thus started his string of winning at least 15 wins a year for 17 consecutive seasons…Maddux won 20 games in 1992, tied for the National League lead and was voted his first Cy Young Award…Maddux became a free agent and signed with the Atlanta Braves where he debuted with a 20-10 record in 1993, collected his second Cy Young Award and led the National League in ERA for the first time (2.36)…In the strike-shortened 1994 season, Maddux posted an ERA of 1.56, the second lowest since Bob Gibson’s historic 1.12 in 1968 and followed that with a 19-2 season and a 1.63 ERA in 1995, the third-lowest ever…That season, the Braves went on to win the World Series title…Overall, from 1993-98, Maddux led the National League in ERA four times and was second the other two seasons…Maddux pitched together for over a decade with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz, forming one of the best pitching staffs in the history of the game…Maddux returned to the Cubs, followed by time with the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres and then back to the Dodgers….Maddux was chosen to the All-Star team eight times…He pitched in 13 Division Series contests, 17 League Championship games and five World Series games…Maddux posted a 3.27 ERA in 198 post-season innings, including an outstanding 2.09 ERA in 38.7 World Series innings….Since retirement in December 2008, Maddux joined the Chicago Cubs in 2010 as a Special Assistant to General Manager Jim Hendry.

Updated: June, 2011

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