Roy Halladay documentary ‘Imperfect’ to air May 29

Roy Halladay’s impressive career and tragic death will be chronicled in a new documentary titled “Imperfect” at the end of this month.

The Denver, Colorado native pitched 12 seasons for the Toronto Blue Jays and four for the Philadelphia Phillies before finally hanging up his major league cleats at 36-years-old. His final outing featuring a meaningless late-September start during the 2013 season in which he faced just three Miami Marlins batters. Looking back, it was a rather light send off for a future Hall of Famer, given Roy Halladay‘s final minutes on the mound came in front of just 18,000 fans inside Marlins Park; however, everyone was well aware how important “Doc” was to the game.

Eight All-Star teams, two Cy Youngs, and a 16-year career that amounted to 203 wins, 64.2 bWAR, and a strong 3.38 ERA, Halladay was perhaps the final “type” of his generation. With a stint in the majors that spanned from the late-1990s to the mid-2010s, the 1995 first-round pick wielded a combination of durability, longevity, and consistency, allowing him at different times to lead the majors in innings pitched, starts, home runs per nine, walks per nine and even hits allowed.

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Halladay was the total package on the diamond, and according to Alex Rodriguez, “the epitome of what a perfect pitcher should look like.”

But as is often times the case, there was a side of Halladay no one knew about. On the field, he was one of the best pitchers from his era, but off of it he was a man that struggled with addiction, depression and the incredibly heavyweight of stardom.

Millions of fans cheered Halladay on without ever seeing the “entire picture”, which led to such a shock when it was reported that drugs were in his system at the time of his death on November of 2017, caused by a plane crash off the coast of Florida.

However, expected to air on May 29, E60 hopes to provide that entire picture, as a trailer for the upcoming documentary about Halladay was released on Thursday. Imperfect will include interviews with numerous people that were in Halladay’s life, as well as his wife Brandy.

Just by watching the almost-3 minute trailer, it’s apparent just how revealing this documentary is going to be:

Roy Halladay was widely respected amongst his peers. Current and former players looked up to him and admired his work ethic and dominance as a big leaguer, and it appears Imperfect is going to show all of that, from start to finish. However, it’s apparent the true intention for Imperfect is to reveal how all of those many expectations impacted Halladay negatively off the field. As the trailer says: many knew Doc, but few knew Roy.

Halladay’s death will always be a tragedy, but hopefully Imperfect will help clear up some of the many questions fans still have regarding his personal life. Recounting the good and bad of Halladay will certainly be tough to watch, but it will be well worth it to discover the truth about one of baseball’s best pitchers, and how his life turned dark as it did.

Start times for Imperfect have not been released yet.