I believe it was last week, I compared Aarron Harang's numbers to that of NOLAN RYAN, today- I do the same with Edinson Volquez.


NOLAN RYAN's best season (cy young award 2nd place) 
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  W   L   G   GS  CG SHOGF SV  IP     H     R      ER   HR   BB   SO  HBP  WP  BFP  IBB  BK  ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP
1973 26 CAL AL  21  16  41  39  26   4   2  1  326.0  238  113  104  18  162  383   7  15  1355   2   0  2.87  3.52  122 1.227 MVP-17,CYA-2,AS

Edinson Volquez
 
 Year Ag Tm  Lg   W   L   G GS CGSHOGF SV  IP     H    R   ER   HR BB  SO  HBP WP BFP  IBBBK ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP
2008 24 CIN NL   5   1   7   7   0   0   0  0   42.3   28    6    5   1   24   52   1   2   174   0   0  1.06  4.40  414 1.228

Strikeout's per inning
NOLAN RYAN- 1.17 strikeouts per inning
EDINSON VOLQUEZ- 1.22 strikeouts per inning

Hits per inning
NOLAN RYAN- .73 hits per inning
EDINSON VOLQUEZ- .66 hits per inning

ERA- 
NOLAN RYAN- 2.87
EDINSON VOLQUEZ- 1.06

NOTE:

Nolan Ryan started 39 games in 1973 and had 26 COMPLETE GAMES!!! That's 2 complete games out of every 3 starts! Volquez to date has 7 STARTS and 0 Complete Games. In order to catch that number of complete games, Volquez would have to start 32 more games, and all but 6 of them would have to be complete games.ONE OF RYAN'S OUTINGS WAS ALSO A 12 INNING COMPLETE GAME- AGAINST DETROIT, ON MAY 2ND, 1973.The Angels won the game 4-1, Ryan faced 54 batters! Volquez has gone a max of 7 innings, he threw 118 pitches in his last victory facing 30 batters.

INTERESTING STATS HUH?