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because cy young consistently won 20+ games in a season a pitched more innings in a season consistently than any pitcher nowadays could even dream of and he has the most wins of all time 511 as well as games started innings pitched and complete games and he lead the Boston Americans to the first ever World Series win pitched the first world series pitch and had the first perfect game in the American league

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