Pete Donohue’s 20 Wins in 1926 were enough to win him that title, but he actually had two other seasons where he accumulated 21 Wins (1923 & 1925) as a Starting Pitcher with the Reds.  Donohue was an excellent control pitcher who would seven time finish in the top in BB/9, including a top finish in 1926.  He would also finish third in Earned Run Average twice.  He would also finish in top three in FIP four times.

With Cincinnati, Donohue posted a record of 127-110 with a 3.73 ERA, and was a Reds Hall of Fame selection in 1964.

Far more than a 20 Game winner in 1905, “Long” Bob Ewing was a master of the spitball (legal at the time) and had a three-year stint (1905-07) where he finished in the top five in bWAR for Pitchers.  Impressively, Ewing would also finish in the top ten in SO/BB six times and FIP six times.  As of this writing, Ewing is 27th all-time in FIP, and had a 108-113 Record for Cincinnati.

Ewing entered the Reds Hall of Fame in 2001.

In the 1890’s, Billy Rhines would have two three year runs with the Cincinnati Reds (1890-92 & 1895-97).  In each stint, he would win an Earned Run Average Title and WHIP Title.  Basically, Rhines had one excellent season in each of his stints as a Red and he is easily one of the better hurlers the team has ever had.  Those two years are enough to rank him here.

Overall as a Red, Rhines had a record of 96-79 with a 3.28 ERA.

Perhaps a strange entry considering his relatively low tenure as a Cincinnati Red, Cy Seymour put together one of the finest and undervalued seasons in the early 1900’s.