The 2015 Hall Of Fame Class is one
of the best as they elected four new members, three of them were first
ballot. John Smoltz, Randy Johnson,
Pedro Martinez and Craig Biggio are the newest members of the baseball hall of
fame in Cooperstown, New York. Last year
Smoltz saw his teammates Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux go in on their first
ballot and his manager Bobby Cox and now he joins them. There really wasn't much issue with these
guys. The only controversy is why is
Mike Piazza still not in. He got a
little bit closer getting close to 70 percent and he should be elected in next
year but for now he waits.
Randy Johnson is arguably the best left handed pitcher to ever play the
game. He was big and intimidating and
once he got under control he was just dominant.
He had two seasons with the Yankees which are here in my backyard and he
won 17 games in both seasons but was never exactly what they thought. If you can win 17 games two years in a row
though and still be called a disappointment it pretty much shows just how good
he really was. He started with the
Montreal Expos and then went to the Seattle Mariners and was very wild but once
he harnassed that he was just lights out.
He had a career record of 303-166 with a 3.29 ERA and 4,875
strikeouts. He was with the Expos his
first two season in 1988 and 1989 and then with the Mariners for 9 full years
and then in his 10th season with the Mariners was traded to the Houston Astros. He spent six seasons with the Arizona
Diamondbacks and helped them to one world series championship. He spent two seasons with the New York Yankees and then back to the
Diamondbacks for a couple of seasons before finishing his career with the San
Francisco Giants in 2009. He was a 10X all
star and five time Cy Young award winner.
He pitched a no-hitter and a perfect game.
John Smoltz spend played for 21
seasons and spent all but one of them with the Atlanta Braves. He spent his final season with the Boston Red
Sox and St. Louis Cardinals. He had a
career record of 213-155 with a 3.33 ERA.
He struck out 3,084 and also had 154 career saves. He was an 8X all star and won a world series
in 1995. He won one cy young award.
Pedro Martinez played 18 seasons
for five different teams. He was an
eight time all star, three time cy young award winner and won a world series in 2004. He has the lowest WHIP of any live ball era
starting pitcher and his adjusted ERA+ is the best of any starting pitcher in
MLB history. He has the second highest
winning percentage in modern baseball history.
He had a career record of 219-100 with a 2.93 ERA. He had 3,154 career strikeouts and played for
the Los Angeles Dodgers, Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and
Philadelphia Phillies.
Craig Biggio was the only position
player to join these three pitchers in the Hall Of Fame class of 2015. He played 20 seasons all of them for the
Houston Astros. Biggio finished with a
career batting average of 281 and he had 3,060 career hits. He had 291 career homeruns with 1,175 career
RBI, he also had 414 career stolen bases.
He was a seven time all star and four time gold glove award winner. He won five silver slugger awards.
