It has long seemed preposterous Jack Morris, who won more games than any pitcher during the 1980s, is not in baseball's Hall of Fame. Every decade prior to that, the pitcher who won the most games, is in the Hall.
Morris' ERA should not be the issue many people are making of it because he pitched in the era of extensive steroid use, and subsequently huge offensive numbers. It was only only slightly better than the ERA of the time period he pitched, but that was the case with many Hall of Fame pitchers.
So Morris is up to 66-something percent of the vote, and it takes being named on 75 percent of the ballots to get in. That's momentum toward getting voted in by the writers, which would be his just due. He has two years left on the ballot.
Another thing: I haven't heard enough about Morris' postseason accomplishments. Not only did he win 254 regular season games and have excellent numbers across the board, but he had two complete-game victories for the Tigers in the 1984 World Series. And his 10-inning, 1-0 shutout for the Twins in 1991 in Game 7 of the World Series was perhaps the greatest clutch pitching performance of all-time.
As for Alan Trammell. His continual lack of support is a joke. That especially true now that Barry Larkin got in. I had issue with Larkin in getting - I voted for him - but that Trammell was named on only 37 percent of the ballots is odd. How can Larkin be a second-year Hall of Fame inductee, while Trammell doesn't even get a sniff after a dozen years? It's splitting hairs comparing the two in every way.