The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. For a tentative schedule and a chance to fill out a Hall of Fame ballot for our crowdsourcing project, see here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indicated.
Earlier in this series, I profiled 2021 Hall of Fame candidates Tim Hudson and Barry Zito, who together made up two-thirds of the “Big Three” starters who helped the
the mets at home facing the orioles. r.a. dickey coming off a one-hitter in his last start. maybe should have been a no-hitter. wilson betemit with the first and only hit of the game. another one-hitter for r.a. dickey. in the eighth, dickey gets nick johnson to end the frame there. chris davis getting caught looking to end the game. mets win 5-0, s one-hit shutout for r.a. dickey, complete game. dickey becomes the first pitch we are consecutive one-hitters since dave steve did it in 1988, and the first national league pitcher to do it since 1944. since the turn of the 20th century, dickey the only to strike to throw back-to-back