Congrats to Mike Mussina!

Let me first start out with this: I do not put any stock in wins. No one who uses sabermetrics does. They just don’t mean anything. But guess what, the hall of fame voters do.

Mike Mussina is obviously a hall of fame caliber pitcher. With a better K/BB rate than Greg Maddux and the most underrated prime of any pitcher in recent memory, it is easy to see he dominated for a very, very long time. In fact, he is still a serviceable major league starter (although regardless of the wins, this is far from his best season).

The problem has always been that the voters like pitchers who win games. Mussina played on a few crappy teams in Baltimore, and just got a little unlucky, so he hasn’t won as many games as the other great pitchers of the 90′s. Mussina also never won 20 games, the arbitrary number the voters love so much. The 300 win argument is still there, although hopefully people get over it. The 20 win argument however is gone, and even better he has done it in his late 30′s. Lets hope the voters finally come to their senses, Mike Mussina needs to be in.