Ten Reasons Mike Mussina is a HOFer (from Page 2 Homepage)
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Beaker (aka Anniebecca)
Nov 20 '08, 09:48
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TEN REASONS MIKE MUSSINA IS A HALL OF FAMER
1. He won 270 games. Umm, that's a lot of wins. Only 32 pitchers in the history of baseball have won more.
2. He never won a Cy Young Award (neither did Nolan Ryan, Juan Marichal, Phil Niekro or Don Sutton), but did finish in the top six in the voting nine times.
3. He finished in the top six in his league in ERA 10 different times.
4. His career ERA+ (ERA adjusted for league and park context) is 123. That's the same as Marichal and better than Bob Feller, Don Drysdale, Rollie Fingers, Warren Spahn, Gaylord Perry, Dennis Eckersley, Fergie Jenkins, Niekro, Jim Bunning, Robin Roberts, Ryan or Catfish Hunter, just to name a few of the more prominent Hall of Fame pitchers.
5. He's the only major leaguer ever to appear in a documentary about crossword puzzles.
6. Andy Pettitte is regarded as a clutch postseason pitcher; Mussina is not. Pettitte's career postseason ERA is 3.96; Mussina's is 3.42. Just sayin'.
7. He never won a World Series with the Yankees. True. But he wasn't going to win one with the Orioles either.
8. His career winning percentage (.638) is higher than contemporaries like Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Curt Schilling, John Smoltz and Pettitte.
9. He graduated from Stanford in three years with a degree in economics. We'll go out on a limb and say he'd be the first Hall of Famer with an economics degree.
10. He never threw Don Zimmer to the ground.
--David Schoenfield
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