Will Roy Halladay be a HoFer?

[Stax]

In the never-ending series of Stax-HoF threads... Roy Halladay.

Cy Young to his name already (and a very close 2nd this past year, and should've been a serious candidate in 05 along with Johan when Fatolo Colon won for no good reason). Fantastic pitcher, very efficient. His only really potential minuses, as I see them, are:

A. Plays in Toronto, not a larger market team that gets him playoff moments and headlines.
B. Shaky start in terms of getting his innings early in his career. Through age 31 now he has only 5 seasons of 200 IP (was top 5 in IP each of those years, including leading the league 3 times, tho). Huge IP total when given the chance, and still 1800 innings so not terrible (likely HoFer Johan Santana is 2 years younger and 250 IP behind Halladay, so only about one season's worth of innings ahead of him).

What do you think?

[Jericho]

Duuuuude...How fucking many more of these?

[Stax]

Duuuuude...How fucking many more of these?

INFINITE

Up next: Will Joe Blanton be a HoFer?

[TheImpossibleMan]

If he keeps up what he's doing for another five to eight years, and keeps up his IP and strikeouts, yes. He's on track, but isn't there right now.

[mongo]

i agree w/ doug.

however, being a betting man, i'd put my money on him not making it. injury and/or a huge falloff is very likely. few pitchers can keep up those numbers for very long.

(remember bob welch? dave stewert? david cone? brett saberhagen(sp?)?)

[Swurgen]

Before and during every one of his starts until he is relieved, Halladay has a distinct trademark in which he goes into a complete "isolation mode", immersing himself in complete concentration and in more or less his own words: To try and plan every pitch he would pitch while on the mound. During this time, he doesn't talk to anyone, not even to reply to a "hello" or wave for that matter, not unless he's been relieved or he completes a game.

Pretty cool.

[Stax]

i agree w/ doug.

however, being a betting man, i'd put my money on him not making it. injury and/or a huge falloff is very likely. few pitchers can keep up those numbers for very long.

(remember bob welch? dave stewert? david cone? brett saberhagen(sp?)?)

Pshhh, everyone knows David Cone is a lock for the HoF.

Lulz, I loved him as a kid.

[ADD]

Halladay might be a HOF if has some more great years outside of Canada

[wacker]

No, but I hope so. Need some Jays hats in Cooperstown.

[shdaow]

No, not right now, and not if he stays in Toronto unfortunately. We're going nowhere faster than the Yanks can print money, and he will never be able to show the true value of his arsenal to the voters in Cooperstown until he gets to a bigger market, or at least makes the playoffs. With the makeup of the teams in our division, and the lack of desire to do anything to compete with them from JP Riccardi, we'll never make the playoffs.

I'd say he'd need to win a Championship to be a lock, but AT LEAST he needs to make the playoffs ONCE to be considered.

With all that said, I love Doc Halladay, he's the best thing that's happened to Toronto Baseball in awhile. Its quite unfortunate that he's stuck on a continually under performing team (poised to place 4th most likely this season).