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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Roy Halladay

Roy Halladay was elected to the Hall of Fame in his 1st year of eligibility, 2019, with 85.4% of the vote.

Five highlights of Roy Halladay's career:

Roy Halladay is one of six pitchers to have won a Cy Young award in each league, winning in 2003 in the American League and in 2011 in the National League.

In Roy Halladay's first career postseason appearance, on October 6, 2010, he threw a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds, the second postseason no-hitter in major-league history. The only Red to reach base was Jay Bruce who walked with two out in the fifth inning.

Just more than four months before this, on May 29, 2010, Roy Halladay pitched the 18th perfect game in major-league history. With his postseason no-hitter, he became the first pitcher to throw both a perfect game and a second no-hitter in the same season.

Roy Halladay had five seasons in his career in which he had at least 200 strikeouts and fewer than 40 walks (2003, 2008 - 2011). No other pitcher in major-league history has had more than three such seasons.

Halladay's uniform number, #32, was retired by the Toronto Blue Jays on Opening Day, 2018.

The first two tables below present Roy Halladay's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1998	TOR	21	2	1.2	0.4	0.9	0.8
1999	TOR	22	36	7.2	8.5	-0.0	-1.2
2000	TOR	23	19	3.6	5.5	-1.2	-1.9
2001	TOR	24	17	5.4	3.5	2.7	2.1
2002	TOR	25	34	15.6	10.1	7.6	5.8
2003	TOR	26	36	17.7	11.6	8.4	6.4
2004	TOR	27	21	8.2	7.1	2.4	1.4
2005	TOR	28	19	10.4	5.6	6.1	5.0
2006	TOR	29	32	12.0	8.7	5.1	3.7
2007	TOR	30	31	12.7	9.6	4.9	3.3
2008	TOR	31	34	16.4	11.5	7.1	5.2
2009	TOR	32	32	14.5	11.6	4.9	3.1
2010	PHI	33	33	16.9	12.4	7.5	5.7
2011	PHI	34	32	15.6	10.5	7.9	6.3
2012	PHI	35	25	9.6	9.9	1.6	0.4
2013	PHI	36	13	3.9	6.8	-1.9	-2.6
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			416	170.9	133.2	64.0	43.4
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			5	2.5	1.8	1.2	0.9
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			421	173.4	135.0	65.1	44.4

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1998	TOR	21	2	0.9	0.7	0.3	0.2
1999	TOR	22	36	7.6	8.1	0.7	-0.5
2000	TOR	23	19	3.5	5.6	-1.4	-2.0
2001	TOR	24	17	5.5	3.5	2.7	2.1
2002	TOR	25	34	15.4	10.3	7.3	5.5
2003	TOR	26	36	17.4	11.9	7.9	5.9
2004	TOR	27	21	8.7	6.6	3.4	2.3
2005	TOR	28	19	9.7	6.3	4.6	3.5
2006	TOR	29	32	11.6	9.1	4.1	2.7
2007	TOR	30	31	12.5	9.9	4.4	2.8
2008	TOR	31	34	16.6	11.3	7.6	5.6
2009	TOR	32	32	15.0	11.1	6.0	4.2
2010	PHI	33	33	15.7	13.7	5.2	3.4
2011	PHI	34	32	15.2	10.9	7.2	5.6
2012	PHI	35	25	9.8	9.7	2.1	0.9
2013	PHI	36	13	3.9	6.8	-1.8	-2.5
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			416	168.8	135.3	60.2	39.7
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			5	2.5	1.8	1.1	0.9
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			421	171.3	137.1	61.4	40.6

Roy Halladay was widely regarded as the best pitcher in baseball for several seasons. From 2002 through 2011, Halladay was named to 8 All-Star teams and received Cy Young votes seven times, winning the award twice, as well as finishing second twice, third once, and fifth twice. He also finished in the top 10 in MVP voting twice.

As for statistics, Halladay won 20 or more games three times, leading his league twice (in his two Cy Young seasons). He led his league in complete games seven times, in innings pitched four times, and in strikeout-to-walk ratio five times.

Player won-lost records agree. Roy Halladay was the best pitcher - and one of the three best players - in baseball over the decade from 2002 - 2011.


		pWins over Positional Average Top 10 Players						pWins over Replacement Level Top 10 Players
	Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL		Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL
1	Albert Pujols	219.2	142.6	62.7	80.1	1	Albert Pujols	219.2	142.6	62.7	80.1
2	Alex Rodriguez	202.2	155.7	47.2	64.6	2	Alex Rodriguez	202.2	155.7	47.2	64.6
3	Roy Halladay	140.0	98.7	45.8	61.9	3	Roy Halladay	140.0	98.7	45.8	61.9
4	David Ortiz	155.2	110.1	39.3	56.8	4	David Ortiz	155.2	110.1	39.3	56.8
5	Barry Bonds	102.1	60.4	37.7	45.8	5	Derek Jeter	200.0	173.7	34.9	52.9
6	Johan Santana	115.7	82.7	36.7	50.1	6	Lance Berkman	191.8	145.3	34.4	50.7
7	Chase Utley	152.1	117.6	35.0	47.8	7	C.C. Sabathia	137.9	107.4	33.6	50.2
8	Derek Jeter	200.0	173.7	34.9	52.9	8	Johan Santana	115.7	82.7	36.7	50.1
9	Lance Berkman	191.8	145.3	34.4	50.7	9	Chase Utley	152.1	117.6	35.0	47.8
10	C.C. Sabathia	137.9	107.4	33.6	50.2	10	Vladimir Guerrero Sr.	184.9	147.9	29.3	47.1

Article last updated: August 21, 2019

All articles are written so that they pull data directly from the most recent version of the Player won-lost database. Hence, any numbers cited within these articles should automatically incorporate the most recent update to Player won-lost records. In some cases, however, the accompanying text may have been written based on previous versions of Player won-lost records. I apologize if this results in non-sensical text in any cases.

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