2. Tom Seaver, 311 wins, 2.86 ERA, 4,783 innings, 3,640 strikeouts, 110.1 bWAR
George Thomas Seaver was one of the most highly-respected pitchers in the game for 20 years, winning the Rookie of the Year in 1967 with the New York Mets and finishing his career by helping the Boston Red Sox in 1986 to make the playoffs, eventually facing his former team, though he did not make a postseason appearance.
He made an All-Star game in his first season in the league, something he would do the first seven seasons of his career, then make 3 more after missing one. Overall, he made a dozen All-Star teams, selected to start the 1970 All-Star game.
Seaver was the spark on the mound behind one of the best narrative team stories in the game’s history, the 1969 Miracle Mets, as he won the NL Cy Young that season and finished 2nd in MVP voting, going 25-7, with a 2.21 ERA over 273 1/3 innings, striking out 208 hitters. He would pitch a gritty game in the NLCS against Atlanta before splitting two games against the Orioles in the World Series as the Mets won the improbable title.
Over his career, Seaver won 3 Cy Youngs while finishing in the top 5 in Cy Young voting 8 times. He also finished in the top 10 in MVP voting 5 times. When time came for his Hall of Fame voting to take his place in MLB history, Seaver was recognized for his prolonged excellence with the highest vote total ever received in Hall of Fame voting, receiving 98.8% of the voting in 1992 balloting.
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