I realize it's a minority position on Ryan but one on which there is some debate. His no hitters and one hitters are impressive but those don't guarantee you admission to the Hall. He was a strikeout machine but he also gave up more walks than he has strikeouts. He does have 324 wins but look at how long he pitched. His WHIP and WAR are not as good as some of the greats of the game, such as Seaver, and if you look at Mike Mussina's WHIP and WAR, they're comparable to Ryan's and Mussina is a marginal Hall of Famer. Ryan is in so it's not worthy of that much debate.
Going back to Trout for a second and those who think the Angels will never win or haven't done right by him, see
Mike Trout Didn’t Go on the Market. It Came to Him.
From the article:
"The Angels have reached the playoffs with Trout just once, when they were swept by Kansas City in a 2014 division series. But the team is far from hopeless, with a 584-550 record in Trout’s seven full seasons and a farm system that ranks No. 6 over all, according to Baseball Prospectus.
Since wildly overpaying for Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton early in this decade, the Angels have added high-impact players like shortstop Andrelton Simmons, outfielder Justin Upton and the two-way star Shohei Ohtani. General Manager Billy Eppler signed catcher Jonathan Lucroy and pitchers Cody Allen, Trevor Cahill and Matt Harvey to one-year deals this winter, and he has steadily modernized the way the Angels use technology.
Still, the Houston Astros are the dominant team in the A.L. West, and Trout could have used his clout to publicly demand that the organization do more to close the gap. He never has, he said in a 2017 interview in Anaheim, because he believes in Eppler and his lieutenants.
'They’re doing a good job, trying to put the players in the right spots,” Trout said then. “You’ve got to trust it. There’s only so much that they can do.'"
