Former Orioles pitcher Rick Sutcliffe didn’t need a quarter of a century to figure out that Mike Mussina was a Hall of Famer. He just had to wait around like everybody else until it became official Tuesday night.
“He’s a Hall of Famer,” Sutcliffe said in a telephone interview just minutes before the announcement that Mussina would be among six players who will be inducted in Cooperstown in July. “I knew that when I left Baltimore in ’93. I played with a lot of them. I’ve seen a lot of Hall of Famers, and I knew that when I left in ’93.