Mark Buehrle and Tim Hudson are among the first time eligibles on this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, and they, along with Torii Hunter, appear to be the only first timers on the ballot who have any sort of shot at making it into the Hall of Fame.
In an exchange with Mike Petriello on Twitter, I mentioned that Buehrle and Hudson have a shot at the Hall, and Mike disagreed, saying that they didn’t seem close to him. And that exchange has prompted me to write about something that has been on my radar for a while — the dearth of starting pitchers who came into the league after the DH era started making it into the Hall of Fame.