CURT SCHILLING
Fifth Year on Ballot (52.3% last year)
PLAYING CAREER: Baltimore Orioles (1988-1990), Houston Astros (1991), Philadelphia Phillies (1992-2000), Arizona Diamondbacks (2000-2003) and Boston Red Sox (2004-2007)
ACHIEVEMENTS: Career record of 216-146 (.597 winning percentage) with an ERA of 3.46 and 3116 strikeouts. Three 20-win seasons, nine seasons with 200-plus innings pitched, five seasons with 200 or more strikeouts…three times with more than 300. Three-time World Series champion (2001, 2004 and 2007) and six-time All-Star selection (1997-1999, 2001-2002 and 2004). Owns a postseason record of 11-2…good for a .846 winning percentage.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ON TWITTER:
If Curt Schilling's horrifying political beliefs keep him out of the Hall of Fame, so should Payton Manning's horrible endorsements.
— Matt Foster (@MattFoster86) January 9, 2017
My opinion of Curt Schilling and the HoF is he deserves to be in cause he was great but will be rooting against it cause he is an asshole
— #1 Julio Rodriguez fan (@blehayne) January 3, 2017
Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) is a bigot & an asshole. But, if racists like Ty Cobb & Cap Anson are in the Hall of Fame, so should Schilling.
— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) January 6, 2017
HOVG THOUGHTS: Schilling’s Hall of Fame case is interesting because so many people look at him solely as the outspoken, conservative talking head on social media and not the pitcher who helped lead his team to the World Series three separate times or the guy who, along with Randy Johnson, helped the Diamondbacks pitching staff dominate baseball in the early 2000s. His numbers are pretty good when you stack them up against some of the other great pitchers of the hitter-centric era he played and, eventually, will help him open the doors to Cooperstown immortality.
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