International baseball #1: Dos Lanzadores

 (I'm very interested in leagues in other countries, so I'm going to do a running series on stars from other countries.)

Ramon Arano was kind of Mexico's answer to Cy Young. Not quite as dominant, but his career was certainly as long. His 32-year career spanned six decades! Though he never won more than 19 games in a season, he compiled a 334-264 record for his career. He struck out 2380 batters, and tossed 57 shutouts, for his career. His rookie year was 1959 (8-9, 4.47 ERA), and his last appearance was in 2001. At the age of 61, he threw 3.1 innings while allowing just 1 run for Veracruz.

His stats, both Mexican League and Mexican Pacific Winter League:

                       W     L      SO       IP        ERA    SHO  CG    GS    G                                                          ML          334   264   2380   4773.1   3.26     57     297   676   811                                                    MPWL      89     84     966   1504      2.81     24      85    207   249  

As you can see, he won 423 Mexican games. Adding in 1 game he won in the  US minors, he won 424 games, an incredible sum.

Juan Suby is kind of a random pick on my part. But whatever, he recently caught my interest and he was good too. He was kind of a relief ace swing-man. So basically Firpo Marberry, but Mexican, and 40 years later. He won 20 games twice: 20 in 1970, and 22 in 1971. In 1971 he had more wins than starts (22-21). His best season in the Mexican Pacific Winter League was 1967-68. That year he had a 14-4 record, with a 1.61 ERA. 

His stats:

                     W    L      SO      IP     ERA  SHO   CG   GS   G                                                                      ML      145   132   1090  2115  3.39    12     68   177   697                                                              MPWL    95     87   1009  1686  2.84    16     76   175   360