Tampa Bay Rays hitters v.s. Mike Mussina

Mike Mussina was finally inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame. There he will join Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, Lee Smith, and Harold Baines who all make up the class of 2019.

Like Rivera and Halladay, Mussina was a longtime AL East foe of the Tampa Bay Rays and Devil Rays. Before I break down how good he was against the Rays, let’s look at how good he was overall.

Mussina was a winner, plain and simple. Over the course of his 18 year career, he won 270 games. Mussina was a 5 time all-star and a 7 time Gold Glove award winner. He never won the Cy Young award but he finished top 6 in voting 9 times and in 1999 he was the runner-up in the American League. He also received MVP…