Moose Call Sad!

By Frank Solares

Mike Mussina’s retirement was harder for some of us to handle then others. All my friends know that Mussina is one of my favorite players of all time. His departure will hurt the Yankees and now they need to fill his 20 wins with one of the big three free agents left on the market.

The Moose will leave after 19 years of Hall worthy credentials and his resume ranks up with baseball greatest pitchers of all time. Check out http://mussinahof.com this fan site is one of the best blogs on the web.

He had 17 seasons of 10 wins or more, his winning percentage is amazing winning 270 games while only having 153 losses ranking him 33rd all time.

His 2813 strikeouts ranks him 19th all time only  Bert Blyleven is not a Hall of Fame player. (He should be)

A 5 time All Star 92,93,94,97,99 and a 7 time gold glove winner 96,97,98,99,2001, 2003.

Like him or not (Michael Kay) he pitched in the incredible steroid accused era and no one would link him to any of that garbage talk. He had great pitching years all while hitters were getting 50, 60, 70 homeruns a year.

As a Mussina fan I will miss his class, his valor, his master like pitching technique and his fire. Every time an all time great retires, a part of baseball greatness comes to an end. Not that many pitchers left in the game that warrant the argument of having his name associated to the Hall of Fame.

Just the conversation of his name being linked to the greatest of the game should merit a Hall of Fame appearance!