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Hall of Fame Poll: Curt Schilling

Would you vote Curt Schilling into the Baseball Hall of Fame?

By Tom Dakers
And he has a good looking wife.
And he has a good looking wife.
Jared Wickerham

I'm going to skip Kenny Rogers, though his win-loss record (219-156) is almost identical to Schilling's and he had a handle of saves (28), but the 4.27 ERA doesn't scream Hall of Fame and he never won more than 18 games in a season and only got Cy Young votes once, finishing 5th in 2006. He did play in 4 All-Star games and had 5 Gold Gloves. Pitched in 762 games, starting 474 of them.

Curt Schilling had a 216-146 record but things seem to click for him at age 30. After he turned 30 he won 162 games, winning over 20 haves 3 times, finishing 2nd in Cy Young voting 3 times and making 6 All-Star teams.

He has 3 World Series rings (we beat out his Phillies in 1993 or he would have 4). He was co-MVP for the 2001 World series. And you likely remember the 'bloody sock' from 2004.

Course there is some post career stuff, but that shouldn't come into the voting. He's a outspoken Republican. He rode his video game company into the ground, costing himself a fortune.

On the plus side he is a fan of OOTP Baseball: "The only baseball sim I've ever gotten addicted to" was OOTP.

Year Age Tm W L ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H ER HR BB SO Awards
1988 21 BAL 0 3 9.82 4 4 0 0 0 0 14.2 22 16 3 10 4
1989 22 BAL 0 1 6.23 5 1 0 0 0 0 8.2 10 6 2 3 6
1990 23 BAL 1 2 2.54 35 0 16 0 0 3 46.0 38 13 1 19 32
1991 24 HOU 3 5 3.81 56 0 34 0 0 8 75.2 79 32 2 39 71
1992 25 PHI 14 11 2.35 42 26 10 10 4 2 226.1 165 59 11 59 147
1993 26 PHI 16 7 4.02 34 34 0 7 2 0 235.1 234 105 23 57 186
1994 27 PHI 2 8 4.48 13 13 0 1 0 0 82.1 87 41 10 28 58
1995 28 PHI 7 5 3.57 17 17 0 1 0 0 116.0 96 46 12 26 114
1996 29 PHI 9 10 3.19 26 26 0 8 2 0 183.1 149 65 16 50 182
1997 30 PHI 17 11 2.97 35 35 0 7 2 0 254.1 208 84 25 58 319 AS,CYA-4,MVP-14
1998 31 PHI 15 14 3.25 35 35 0 15 2 0 268.2 236 97 23 61 300 AS
1999 32 PHI 15 6 3.54 24 24 0 8 1 0 180.1 159 71 25 44 152 AS
2000 33 TOT 11 12 3.81 29 29 0 8 2 0 210.1 204 89 27 45 168
2000 33 PHI 6 6 3.91 16 16 0 4 1 0 112.2 110 49 17 32 96
2000 33 ARI 5 6 3.69 13 13 0 4 1 0 97.2 94 40 10 13 72
2001 34 ARI 22 6 2.98 35 35 0 6 1 0 256.2 237 85 37 39 293 AS,CYA-2,MVP-10
2002 35 ARI 23 7 3.23 36 35 0 5 1 0 259.1 218 93 29 33 316 AS,CYA-2,MVP-10
2003 36 ARI 8 9 2.95 24 24 0 3 2 0 168.0 144 55 17 32 194
2004 37 BOS 21 6 3.26 32 32 0 3 0 0 226.2 206 82 23 35 203 AS,CYA-2,MVP-11
2005 38 BOS 8 8 5.69 32 11 21 0 0 9 93.1 121 59 12 22 87
2006 39 BOS 15 7 3.97 31 31 0 0 0 0 204.0 220 90 28 28 183
2007 40 BOS 9 8 3.87 24 24 0 1 1 0 151.0 165 65 21 23 101
20 Yrs 216 146 3.46 569 436 81 83 20 22 3261.0 2998 1253 347 711 3116
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 11/30/2013.

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