and developing a mixture of off-speed pitches, such as the forkball and the screwball. He mixed his repertoire of off-speed pitches very effectively, using deception rather than speed to get hitters out. "I have to change speeds and try to get ahead of the hitters in any ballpark," he summarized his style. He and others quipped that he was "the guy who threw 90 in the 70s and 70 in the 90s." The new style extended his career, and he accumulated 34 shutouts, innings pitched, and 2,773 strikeouts. He is one of only 26 major league pitchers to have struck out at least 2,700 batters in his career. In a 21-year career, Tanana never had any sort of surgery on his arm. "I had sore arms, of course, that just goes right along with pitching. You're going to have sore arms on occasion." When his arm did get sore, Tanana treated it with physical therapy and strengthening exercises. In a 2019 interview, he speculated that young pitchers were having arm surgery more often because they threw too much when they were young, and they focused too much on baseball when they were young, instead of playing other sports as well during the year. Legacy As a result of his 21-year career, Tanana is among the career leaders in baseball history in a number of categories. His 240 wins are 58th all-time, and the second-most by a pitcher who never won 20 games in a season (Dennis Martínez won 245). His 236 losses rank 17th all-time, and he holds the AL record for most home runs allowed (422). Tanana's innings pitched are the 35th most in baseball history, his 1,704 earned runs allowed are 21st, and his 17,641 batters faced rank 37th. In 1999, Tanana appeared on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time but received no votes and thus, he was removed from future Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) consideration for election (though he could still be elected by the Veterans Committee). He has the most career WAR (57.1 according to Baseball Reference) of any player to appear on the BBWAA ballot and not receive any votes. Tanana is one of five Hall of Fame-eligible pitchers who rank in the top 25 all-time in career strikeouts and who have not been elected to the Hall. Tanana's 2,773 strikeouts rank him at number 23 all-time. Also not in