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Even the HOF doesn't have enough pitching

By Jim Caple
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

It's nice to see Goose Gossage finally get his due in the Hall of Fame, but now that we're so willing to vote in closers (two in the past three years and four in the past five), it's high time we start giving starting pitchers some credit again. Here's a trivia question for your next trip to the bar: How many starting pitchers whose careers started within the past 40 years have the baseball writers voted into the Hall of Fame? Answer: Zero. Evidently, people who say there is never enough pitc ...

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