Why I like Lee Smith for Hall of Fame: - career ERA is 3.03, his career FIP is 2.93 - career K/9 is 8.79 (peaking at 12.23 one season!) - career LOB% is 76.7% - 478 career saves imo, this is better than Gossage, who is in the HOF. I’d say it’s a tossup between Sutter and Smith Sutter’s stats: http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1012743&position=P Smith does have more saves than Sutter and pitched longer. Sutter's career ERA and FIP are better though.