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Originally Posted by jaysdailydose
Morris won't get in next year, and apparently Curt's stellar career including being perhaps the best postseason pitcher EVER didn't mean very much either. Not even 40% of the writers consider the unquestioned best big-game pitcher of the last decade a Hall of Famer.
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The voters, being the quirky lot that they are, will put in Schilling after Maddux is inducted. There is that sacrosanct 'first ballot' mystique for many voters, but not all. I will eat serious crow if I am sitting here in 5 years (eagerly anticipating the release of OOTP 19) and Curt isn't inducted. Maybe some voters will hold out for Pedro to get in before checking Curt's box. That is their call to make, and I find it to be silly, but it is an election dynamic that is in play.
Keith Hernandez barely received 5% of the vote his first year (1996), and was off the ballot after 2004. His lack of support was not due to anything he ever did or didn't do on the field.
I disagree with you about Morris. I did not put him on my list because I knew he had next year remaining. I think you will see him get in. I was a bit older than 6 in 1984. Jack Morris won more games in the 80s than anyone. He started opening day year after year. He was a rock, an inning eater, and made the rest of his staff better. In short, he was a winner. If you bump Schill because of his post season prowess, I think Morris deserves this bump, also. Morris v Schilling in a Game 7...scoreless in the 11th inning.