COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Mike Mussina didn’t mind the wait. Six years was nothing to the former Yankees and Orioles pitcher. He was thrilled he didn’t have to hold out any longer.
“I was as surprised as anyone [to get in],” he said Saturday, the day before entering the National Baseball Hall of Fame alongside closers Mariano Rivera and Lee Smith, designated hitter Edgar Martinez, first baseman Harold Baines and Blue Jays and Phillies starting pitcher Roy Halladay, who died in 2017. “I was surprised that I hung on to make it this time around.”
Mussina was named on just 20.