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Posted By: Jim VB

Off the top of my head I listed and researched 13 pitchers who I think had similar careers to Mussina. Five are in the HOF (Gibson, Sutton, Hubbell, Marichal and Catfish Hunter). Eight are not (Morris, Kaat, Blyleven, John, Brown, Schilling, Glavine, and David Wells). I think, of those most would only see Glavine as a "lock".

If you took all career records and "annualized" them to a 162 game season, NONE had an appreciably better average year than Mussina's 16-9.

Morris 16-11
Kaat 12-10
Blyleven 14-12
Gibson 16-11
Sutton 14-11
John 13-10
Brown 14-10
Schilling 14-9
Glavine 15-10
Hubbell 17-10
Marichal 17-10
C. Hunter 15-11
D. Wells 14-9