5 pitchers were tied for winning the most games in 1981, with 14 wins. The first three are Dennis Martinez, Steve McCatty and Jack Morris.

	NAME	W	SEASON	TM	L	W%	G	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	ERA-	FIP	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Dennis Martinez D. Martinez	14	1981	BAL	5	.737	25	24	3.32	88	9	2	0	179.0	173	66	84	10	62	2	0	1	753	6	4.42	3.12	1.42	0.50	11.7	8.2	1.31	.276	4.22	93	3.41	93	8.70	5.3
2	Steve McCatty S. McCatty	14	1981	OAK	7	.667	22	22	2.33	91	16	4	0	185.2	140	48	50	12	61	2	0	1	741	0	4.41	2.96	1.49	0.58	12.3	8.2	1.08	.223	2.42	67	3.47	95	6.79	3.4
3	Jack Morris J. Morris	14	1981	DET	7	.667	25	25	3.05	97	15	1	0	198.0	153	67	69	14	78	2	0	11	798	2	4.41	3.55	1.24	0.64	12.2	9.8	1.17	.229	3.14	83	3.75	98	6.95	2
4	Tom Seaver T. Seaver	14	1981	CIN	2	.875	23	23	2.54	87	6	1	0	166.1	120	47	51	10	66	3	0	8	671	5	4.71	3.57	1.32	0.54	13.0	9.8	1.12	.218	2.76	72	3.58	104	6.49	-2.2
5	Pete Vuckovich P. Vuckovich	14	1981	MIL	4	.778	24	23	3.55	84	2	1	0	149.2	137	59	61	9	57	4	0	1	620	1	5.05	3.43	1.47	0.54	13.5	9.2	1.30	.275	3.67	102	3.48	97	8.24	1.3
6	Steve Carlton S. Carlton	13	1981	PHI	4	.765	24	24	2.42	179	10	1	0	190.0	152	51	59	9	62	1	0	3	763	9	8.48	2.94	2.89	0.43	23.5	8.1	1.13	.279	2.79	69	2.32	67	7.20	23.7
7	Dennis Leonard D. Leonard	13	1981	KCR	11	.542	26	26	2.99	107	9	2	0	201.2	202	67	79	15	41	3	0	5	837	5	4.78	1.83	2.61	0.67	12.8	4.9	1.20	.279	3.53	81	3.16	87	9.01	11
8	Scott McGregor S. McGregor	13	1981	BAL	5	.722	24	22	3.26	82	8	3	0	160.0	167	58	63	13	40	0	2	5	664	3	4.61	2.25	2.05	0.73	12.3	6.0	1.29	.291	3.54	91	3.38	92	9.39	5.4
9	Fernando Valenzuela F. Valenzuela	13	1981	LAD	7	.650	25	25	2.48	180	11	8	0	192.1	140	53	55	11	61	1	0	4	758	4	8.42	2.85	2.95	0.51	23.7	8.0	1.05	.255	2.57	73	2.44	72	6.55	20.4
10	Rick Langford R. Langford	12	1981	OAK	10	.545	24	24	2.99	84	18	2	0	195.1	190	65	81	14	58	3	0	2	823	1	3.87	2.67	1.45	0.65	10.2	7.0	1.27	.265	3.73	86	3.61	99	8.75	0.7
11	Mike Norris M. Norris	12	1981	OAK	9	.571	23	23	3.75	78	12	2	0	172.2	145	72	77	17	63	10	0	0	721	14	4.07	3.28	1.24	0.89	10.8	8.7	1.20	.231	4.01	108	4.24	116	7.56	-11.8
12	Steve Rogers S. Rogers	12	1981	MON	8	.600	22	22	3.42	87	7	3	0	160.2	149	61	64	7	41	2	0	4	652	1	4.87	2.30	2.12	0.39	13.3	6.3	1.18	.276	3.59	97	2.88	85	8.35	9
13	Dick Ruthven D. Ruthven	12	1981	PHI	7	.632	23	22	5.15	80	5	0	0	146.2	162	84	94	10	54	3	0	4	648	6	4.91	3.31	1.48	0.61	12.3	8.3	1.47	.303	5.77	146	3.56	103	9.94	-1.6
14	Mario Soto M. Soto	12	1981	CIN	9	.571	25	25	3.29	151	10	3	0	175.0	142	64	69	13	61	3	0	3	717	4	7.77	3.14	2.48	0.67	21.1	8.5	1.16	.264	3.55	93	2.93	85	7.30	10.1
15	Milt Wilcox M. Wilcox	12	1981	DET	9	.571	24	24	3.03	79	8	1	0	166.1	152	56	61	10	52	6	0	3	686	4	4.27	2.81	1.52	0.54	11.5	7.6	1.23	.263	3.30	83	3.47	91	8.22	6.6
16	Doyle Alexander D. Alexander	11	1981	SFG	7	.611	24	24	2.89	77	1	1	0	152.1	156	49	51	11	44	2	0	2	646	4	4.55	2.60	1.75	0.65	11.9	6.8	1.31	.283	3.01	86	3.43	103	9.22	-2.2
17	Bert Blyleven B. Blyleven	11	1981	CLE	7	.611	20	20	2.88	107	9	1	0	159.1	145	51	52	9	40	5	0	1	644	3	6.04	2.26	2.68	0.51	16.6	6.2	1.16	.282	2.94	77	2.84	75	8.19	16.8
18	Mike Caldwell M. Caldwell	11	1981	MIL	9	.550	24	23	3.93	41	3	0	0	144.1	151	63	70	18	38	1	0	4	609	3	2.56	2.37	1.08	1.12	6.7	6.2	1.31	.260	4.36	113	4.46	125	9.42	-15.1
19	Ken Forsch K. Forsch	11	1981	CAL	7	.611	20	20	2.88	55	10	4	0	153.0	143	49	54	7	27	4	0	2	616	0	3.24	1.59	2.04	0.41	8.9	4.4	1.11	.260	3.18	80	3.08	82	8.41	11.5
20	Ron Guidry R. Guidry	11	1981	NYY	5	.688	23	21	2.76	104	0	0	0	127.0	100	39	41	12	26	1	1	0	497	6	7.37	1.84	4.00	0.85	20.9	5.2	0.99	.249	2.91	78	2.82	77	7.09	11.7
21	Larry Gura L. Gura	11	1981	KCR	8	.579	23	23	2.72	61	12	2	0	172.1	139	52	61	11	35	4	0	0	680	3	3.19	1.83	1.74	0.57	9.0	5.1	1.01	.225	3.19	74	3.40	93	7.26	4.7
22	Moose Haas M. Haas	11	1981	MIL	7	.611	24	22	4.46	64	5	0	0	137.1	146	68	69	10	40	1	1	4	583	3	4.19	2.62	1.60	0.66	11.0	6.9	1.35	.291	4.52	128	3.51	98	9.57	0.8
23	Rick Honeycutt R. Honeycutt	11	1981	TEX	6	.647	20	20	3.31	40	8	2	0	127.2	120	47	49	12	17	0	0	1	509	1	2.82	1.20	2.35	0.85	7.9	3.3	1.07	.245	3.45	93	3.59	100	8.46	0.1
24	Burt Hooton B. Hooton	11	1981	LAD	6	.647	23	23	2.28	74	5	4	0	142.1	124	36	42	3	33	2	0	2	571	3	4.68	2.09	2.24	0.19	13.0	5.8	1.10	.264	2.66	67	2.57	76	7.84	13
25	Nolan Ryan N. Ryan	11	1981	HOU	5	.688	21	21	1.69	140	5	3	0	149.0	99	28	34	2	68	1	0	1	605	16	8.46	4.11	2.06	0.12	23.1	11.2	1.12	.246	2.05	52	2.28	70	5.98	16.5