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Originally Posted by DogsUp
Since 2000 not one pitcher has had more than 9 complete games in in one season. Phil Niekro had over 20 complete games in 77-78-79. Fernando had 20 in 1986 and Tom Seaver has 21 in 1971. If you look at the pitchers (starting) in the Hall of Fame prior to 1990, they all have multiple years in which they had over 20 complete games multiple times. Tom Glavin who will be in the Hall has never had more than 9 complete games, Greg Maddox had 10 complete games twice in his career. So the expecation of number of complete games has decreased as a measure for inductiuon into the hall of fame.
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Since when is complete games a key component of a pitcher being elected? I have never heard that a pitcher was a serious canidate because he completes games. Those guys you named are getting in because they won 300 games, won cy youngs, won playoff games, had great era's and had really long careers. Lets see how many of the current crop of Pitchers that are starting their careers now get elected.