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Offline RL04

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Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Topic Start: April 07, 2011, 05:00:57 PM »
Interesting little fact -

There is not one pitcher in the Hall of Fame born after the first half of the 1950s.

Here are the youngest pitchers in the HoF (and their birth year):

Dennis Eckersley (1954)

Bruce Sutter (1953)

Bert Blylevenn  (1951)

Goose Gossage (1951)
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Offline JCA-CrystalCity

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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #1: April 07, 2011, 05:12:04 PM »
my guess is the following pitchers from the past 20 years of so will be HOF:

Johnson
Maddux / Smoltz / Glavine (pitching's tinker evers chance)
Pedro
Mo

These are the iffy ones
Mussina
Schilling
Hoffman

Clemens will be kept out due to PEDs.

Pettite and Kevin Brown will not make it. Pettite will have more support, but Brown was better.

Morris may make it on a snow ball effect.

I'll leave out anyone who has not pitched 10 years because they have not yet qualified.
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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #2: April 07, 2011, 05:19:50 PM »
Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on April 07, 2011, 05:12:04 PM
my guess is the following pitchers from the past 20 years of so will be HOF:

Johnson
Maddux / Smoltz / Glavine (pitching's tinker evers chance)
Pedro
Mo

These are the iffy ones
Mussina
Schilling
Hoffman

Clemens will be kept out due to PEDs.

Pettite and Kevin Brown will not make it. Pettite will have more support, but Brown was better.

Morris may make it on a snow ball effect.

I'll leave out anyone who has not pitched 10 years because they have not yet qualified.


Lee Arthur Smith!
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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #3: April 07, 2011, 05:24:21 PM »
There's a bias still against relievers, I think.  Holding the saves record I don't believe guarantees admission.  That's why I'm not even sure Hoffman is a lock.

Of course, Keith Foulke and Derek Lowe should be in the HOF.
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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #4: April 07, 2011, 05:29:16 PM »
Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on April 07, 2011, 05:24:21 PM
There's a bias still against relievers, I think. 

They still let Bruce "No Starts" Sutter in.
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Offline RL04

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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #5: April 13, 2011, 04:28:42 PM »
Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on April 07, 2011, 05:12:04 PM
my guess is the following pitchers from the past 20 years of so will be HOF:


Sure.

But I think it is odd that there is not one pitcher in the HoF (yet) born after 1954.

That's almost sixty years ago!
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Offline EdStroud

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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #6: April 13, 2011, 06:05:26 PM »
Mike Bascik is in the HoF...I saw his picture.
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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #7: April 13, 2011, 11:15:27 PM »
I think Halladay will make it sometime this century.
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Offline spidernat

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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #8: April 14, 2011, 08:30:37 AM »
^ I'm pretty sure Greg Maddux will beat him to it.  :lol:
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Re: Hall of Fame Pitchers - None Since the 50s
« Reply #9: April 14, 2011, 11:30:11 AM »
Quote from: MarquisDeSade on April 07, 2011, 05:29:16 PM
They still let Bruce "No Starts" Sutter in.

...and even he had to wait 12 years past his first eligibility.
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