Buffalo Boy's Blog

Jack Morris has been on the Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot for a few years now and has come up empty up till this year. This year, he deserves to make it in. If Todd Stottlemyre can even get on a ballot, Jack Morris should be in no questions asked.

The reasons he has not gotten the vote in to this point are few. One of which his relationship with baseball writers and the media wasn't exactly stellar and he had a lifetime 3.90 ERA, not exactly the best ERA ever to go into the hall.

But, if you take a closer look at his career it also features this:

Three World Series Championships with three different teams: The Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays. 

He won 20 games three times in his career with three different teams, Tigers, Twins and Jays.

He has 254 career regular season wins, and is 7-4 lifetime in postseason play including 2 wins in the 1991 World Series that saw him post a 1.17 ERA and a 2-0 record in the 1984 World Series with a 2.00 ERA.

He didn't fare all that well in the post-season with Toronto but in 1992, if he hadn't won 21 games during the regular season, they may not have made the post-season to begin with.

The guy ate innings too. of his 527 starts, 175 of those were complete games. In a stretch from 1980 to 1991, Morris threw no fewer than 9 complete games. To put that in perspective, Roy Halladay, who has had more complete games than any other pitcher in baseball since 2003 has had NO MORE than 9 in any given season, including this past year in which he had 9. Morris threw 20 complete games in 1983.

The mustache alone should be shaven off his face and put in the hall next to his plaque. Jack deserves it and out of the other players on this years ballot I put him no worse than third behind Rickey Henderson, also a former Jay that helped out in those World Series years and Bert Blylevyn another underrated pitcher that deserves to get in.