Let me start another Hall of Fame controversy.
I think it’s a serious oversight by the Hall of Fame to not have inducted former Cubs righthander Rick Reuschel, more than 30 years after his retirement.
Reuschel didn’t get any real consideration in his one year on the BBWAA ballot in 1997. He got just two votes from writers and fell off the ballot.
His W/L record was a mediocre 214-191, a .528 winning percentage. That was mostly because he pitched for a lot of bad Cubs teams, then a lot of bad Pirates teams. He wasn’t really a strikeout pitcher, piling up 2,015 strikeouts in 3,548u2153 innings, just 5.