No one has changed my thinking on this subject more than Alex. Applying the old benchmarks would basically leave just one pitcher to debut in the last 20 years as a lock: Verlander. Times change, and our HOF standards should reflect new usage patterns.
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Fun Globe Today segment in which I got to rant about the Hall of Fame - and in particular, the unnecessarily and (to my mind) wrongly narrow door for starting pitchers: www.bostonglobe.com/video/2024/1...
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