Having watched the 30 for 30 special on the 2004 Red Sox again this weekend brought this thought up in my mind. Wow... is this close. I gotta think that a guy with his nice numbers (.597 winning pct for the guys that like wins, with three 20 win seasons - a very nice adjusted ERA of 128) and his stellar post-season numbers gets in. Not Walter Johnson by any measure, but certainly better than a whole lot of guys in the Hall. You compare him to guys like Drysdale, Hunter, Jenkins, Sutton, Bunning, etc. and where does he falter? His win totals and percentages are right in the same range (with the exception of Sutton), his adjusted ERA destroys all of them, his strikeout to walk ratios are ridiculous, and he has the big postseason resume. I say he gets in - no problem.
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