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 | | Blyleven, there are only two pitchers—Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson—on the above list who are not in the Hall, and both will surely be inducted on the first ballot. |
 | | Bert Blyleven also ranks in the top ten for the decade of the 1980s, and he is second for the ten-year period (1975-1984) overlapping these two decades—behind only Steve Carlton, who is also a multiple Cy Young Award winner and first-ballot HOF inductee. |
 | | As a point of clarification, had you held to that magical mark all along, there would only be 20 pitchers currently in the Hall of Fame with another one on his way (Clemens) and perhaps a second one on the horizon (Greg Maddux). |
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