Roy Halladay was just awarded the Cy Young award for the National League for 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 He becomes only the fifth pitcher to win the award in both leagues.\u00c2\u00a0 The others are Gaylord Perry, Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez.<\/p>\n
But, even more significantly, would you believe that as a result of his great 2010 season, Roy Halladay has achieved Hall of Fame numbers after just thirteen seasons?<\/p>\n
Only forty (40) pitchers since 1920 have posted HOF numbers (according to the CAWS Career Gauge) including the four mentioned above and Roy Halladay.<\/p>\n
Halladay had an outstanding season in 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 It was his thirteenth season in the big leagues and his record was 21-10 with an ERA of 2.44.\u00c2\u00a0 By any measure, this was a great season. But there is something even more special about it for Halladay.\u00c2\u00a0 2010 was the season that Roy established Hall of Fame numbers comparable to those of Sandy Koufax, Dizzy Dean, Pedro Martinez and a few other special pitchers.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, in 2010, Halladay joined a very select group of only seven pitchers since 1920 (the modern era) to achieve a CAWS score of 180 with fewer than 2400 innings pitched.<\/p>\n
Bill James\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Win Shares system is the most comprehensive tool available to understand how good a season<\/strong> a player had.\u00c2\u00a0 It includes offensive and defensive contributions and adjusts for all relevant factors.\u00c2\u00a0 The CAWS Career Gauge (Career Assessment\/Win Shares) uses win shares to measure how good a career<\/strong> a player has had.\u00c2\u00a0 The CAWS Gauge is based on a player\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s core value (his ten best seasons) plus additional credit for his other seasons.\u00c2\u00a0 It is an objective tool which attempts to assess career value.<\/p>\n According to the CAWS Gauge, a starting pitcher would normally need a CAWS score of 235 (and a long career) to be considered to have obvious Hall of Fame numbers.\u00c2\u00a0 Only twenty-five (25) pitchers have done this in the modern era. <\/strong>Outstanding pitchers like Roger Clemens (303), Greg Maddux (284) and Randy Johnson (254) do satisfy this criterion.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, trying to figure out how to judge a pitcher who pitched \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fewer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d innings (for whatever reason) presents special problems.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is a worthy CAWS.<\/p>\n In examining the career numbers for all the outstanding pitchers, I began to see certain patterns emerging.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, I began to see that only the best pitchers achieved a certain CAWS score in relation to the number of innings pitched.\u00c2\u00a0 And this has enabled me to create certain other benchmarks for a pitcher to achieve to determine if he has Hall of Fame numbers (besides the 235 CAWS benchmark).<\/p>\n Consider the following.\u00c2\u00a0 I have found only seven pitchers since 1920 who achieved a CAWS score of 180 with fewer than 2400 innings pitched (of those pitchers who have not achieved the 235 career benchmark.)\u00c2\u00a0 So, the CAWS Career Gauge suggests that any pitcher who has done this has also established HOF numbers.<\/p>\n Here are those eight pitchers. \u00c2\u00a0IP is innings pitched, CWS is career win shares, CV is core value (the win shares for the ten best seasons) and CAWS is the career score [CAWS = CV + .25(CWS \u00e2\u20ac\u201c CV)].<\/p>\n You will note that four of these players (bold print) are in the Hall of Fame and the other three are not yet eligible.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, many fans consider Mariano Rivera and Pedro Martinez to be a lock for the Hall.\u00c2\u00a0 The numbers for Mo are through the 2010 season and for Pedro they represent his numbers through his first thirteen seasons (through 2004). As you can see, as a result of the 2010 season, Roy Halladay has now joined this elite group after thirteen years in the majors.<\/p>\n So, congratulations to Roy Halladay for not only winning the Cy Young award but for the more impressive feat of posting Hall of Fame numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roy Halladay was just awarded the Cy Young award for the National League for 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 He becomes only the fifth pitcher to win the award in both leagues.\u00c2\u00a0 The others are Gaylord Perry, Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez. But, even more significantly, would you believe that as a result of his great 2010 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,77,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hall-of-fame","category-prof-hobans-hall-of-fame-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\n
\n Player<\/strong><\/td>\n IP<\/strong><\/td>\n CWS<\/strong><\/td>\n CV<\/strong><\/td>\n CAWS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Pedro Martinez<\/td>\n 2297<\/td>\n 224<\/td>\n 200<\/td>\n 206<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Mariano Rivera
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n1150<\/td>\n 241<\/td>\n 175<\/td>\n 192<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Sandy Koufax <\/strong><\/td>\n 2324<\/strong><\/td>\n 194<\/strong><\/td>\n 190<\/strong><\/td>\n 191<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Hoyt Wilhelm<\/strong><\/td>\n 2254<\/strong><\/td>\n 256<\/strong><\/td>\n 168<\/strong><\/td>\n 190<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Goose Gossage<\/strong><\/td>\n 1809<\/strong><\/td>\n 223<\/strong><\/td>\n 173<\/strong><\/td>\n 186<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Roy Halladay<\/td>\n 2297<\/td>\n 194<\/td>\n 183<\/td>\n 186<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dizzy Dean<\/strong><\/td>\n 1967<\/strong><\/td>\n 181<\/strong><\/td>\n 180<\/strong><\/td>\n 180<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n