Roy Halladay was the best starting pitcher in baseball for at least a decade, won two Cy Young Awards, threw a perfect game and only the second no-hitter in postseason history, practically invented a style of power pitching that others copied, had no peers when it came to completing games, and is among the 14 best starting pitchers at preventing earned runs.
That’s a Hall of Famer. Yet because Halladay did not pitch a full season until he was 25 and because his shoulder gave out when he was 35, he accumulated “only” 203 wins and “only” 2,749.