Luis Tiant

Luis Clemente Tiant Vega, nicknamed "El Tiante," was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for 19 years, primarily for the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox. Born November 23, 1940, he died October 8, 2024.

Over his career, Tiant compiled a 229–172 record with 2,416 strikeouts, a 3.30 earned run average, 187 complete games, and 49 shutouts across 3,486⅓ innings—the most shutouts of any pitcher not elected to the Hall of Fame. He was an All-Star for three seasons and a 20-game winner four times. He led the American League in ERA in 1968 and 1972, in strikeouts per nine innings in 1967, and in shutouts in 1966, 1968, and 1974.

Tiant was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1997, the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame in 2002, the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009, and the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2012. He was considered for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America from 1988 to 2002, and by the Hall's era committees in 2011, 2014, and 2017.