Jim Palmer had been the only longtime Baltimore Orioles pitcher in the Baseball Hall of Fame since his election in 1990.
That changed when this year's results from the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot revealed that former Orioles right-hander Mike Mussina will be joining Palmer in the Hall of Fame this summer. Mussina garnered 76.7 percent of the vote, just more than the 75 percent threshold needed for induction. It was Mussina's sixth year on the writers' ballot.
"I always think when you think of the great pitchers from the early 90s and into the 2000s, he certainly was one of them," Palmer said on Glenn Clark Radio Jan. 22 before the election results were announced. "He wasn't an obvious choice. Of course in that era, you were being compared to Randy Johnson, who has over 300 wins with all the strikeouts throwing 102 [mph] …, Greg Maddux with 355 wins or [Tom] Glavine with 305 wins, you go down the list.
