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[QUOTE="bpo57, post: 2465847, member: 1572"]
From a purely baseball perspective, can anybody explain to me how Mussina is at 63%+ and Schilling is at 51%+?

When you look at the regular season stats, they are incredibly close.  Schilling had a lower ERA, many more complete games, went deeper into games, had more Ks and fewer walks, lower WHIP while Mussina had significantly more wins but played on much better teams.  Many of those Phillies teams were awful. Mussina also pitched in smaller parks and faced the DH more so he has that in his favor.  You could analyze the regular season results six ways to Sunday and they're really close. But the postseason results are obviously in favor of Schilling.  I believe he was 4-0 in postseason elimination games and was a huge factor behind two WS titles.

I think they both eventually deserve inclusion (though each is a very close call), just don't get why Mussina would be that far ahead of Schilling.  Seems to me some voters are holding Schilling's personal views against him.  That ain't right.
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