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peter chaoPete, Todd
I disagree with both of you. Addie Joss should not be in the Hall. His numbers were not exceptional for the times. Yes, he won 20 games several times, but that was during the time there were 30 game winners. Also, his ERA was low, but that was during the dead ball era when everybody's ERA was low.
Not comparable to Sandy Koufax at all. Sandy's numbers were exceptional for his era. Not only that the Dodgers were winners. Without Sandy and Don Drysdale, the Dodgers would have been in the second division.
Let's say that Nolan Ryan pitched only the first ten years of his career and then got injured because of a line drive to the pitcher's mound. Would he have been a Hall of Famer. Probably not. In the same way Addie Joss is not a HOF.
Peter