@SleeperColts What would that do? We still have to pay the guy. He hasn’t lost the locker room. Another idiot who thinks this line up is going to make the Super Bowl except for coaching. We have a zero QB, no pass rush, and a mess at linebacker.
If you never watched Buehrle pitch, the thing to understand is the tempo. He got the ball and threw it.
Games he started ran under two and a half hours regularly, and hitters hated stepping in against him because he never gave them a second to think.
He made fourteen consecutive seasons of two hundred or more innings, which nobody does anymore.
He threw a no hitter in 2007 and a perfect game against the Rays in 2009, and he was on the mound for the White Sox team that finally ended their long championship drought in 2005.
I still have him on the outside, narrowly. He rarely struck anybody out and he was almost never the best pitcher in his league in a given year. Durability that extreme is a real skill and I wish the voting rewarded it more than it does.
Is showing up every fifth day for fifteen years a Hall of Fame skill?