Cubs 2009: All the Pitchers, Topps Style

Yesterday I featured cards for all 21 of the position players for the 2009 Cubs. Today it is the pitchers' turn. The season saw 24 different hurlers take the mound for the Cubs. That seems like an awfully high number.

The base set included seven of the pitchers. Another five were in the update set. That left 12 for me to create. The two biggest names Topps didn't include were Ryan Dempster and Carlos Marmol. Both were All Stars in 2008. I wonder why Topps left them out in 2009?

The pitchers are arranged in order by innings pitched. The team was led by Ryan Dempster, who threw 200 innings. At the opposite end was veteran Chad Fox, who pitched only 1/3 of an inning over two games and gave up five earned runs (that's an ERA of 135.00!). The other 22 fall somewhere in between.



Ryan Dempster - 200 innings



Ted Lilly - 177 innings



Carlos Zambrano - 169 innings



Randy Wells - 165 innings



Rich Harden - 141 innings



Sean Marshall - 85 innings



Carlos Marmol - 74 innings



Aaron Heilman - 72 innings



Kevin Gregg - 68 innings



Angel Guzman - 61 innings



Tom Gorzelanny - 38 innings



Jeff Samardzija - 34 innings



David Patton - 27 innings



Kevin Hart - 27 innings



John Grabow - 25 innings



Esmailin Caridad - 19 innings



Jose Ascanio - 15 innings



Jeff Stevens - 12 innings



Justin Berg - 12 innings



Neal Cotts - 11 innings



Luis Vizcaino - 3 innings



Mitch Atkins - 2 innings



Jason Waddell - 1 2/3 innings



Chad Fox - 1/3 inning