Paul Byrd Marquee

He went 17-11 for a 2002 Kansas City club that lost 100 games, and 15-11 for the 1999 Phillies, which got him his only All-Star selection. He won 15 more for the 2007 Indians, who took 96 games and the division.

Fourteen seasons gave him 109 wins against 96, a 4.41 earned run average and 1,697 innings, with 923 strikeouts and 405 walks. He worked with a high leg kick and a full over-the-head windup that belonged to the 1940s, and he threw strikes because he had no other option.

Elbow surgery cost him the whole of 2003. During the 2007 postseason a newspaper reported that he had bought human growth hormone; he said it had been prescribed for a pituitary tumor. He pitched two more seasons in Boston and retired at thirty-eight. No Hall of Fame ballot has listed him.