Rik Aalbert Blyleven (twitter: @BertBlyleven28)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: April 6, 1951 in Zeist, Netherlands
High School: Santiago HS (Garden Grove, CA)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 3rd round of the 1969 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 5, 1970 (Age 19)   vs. WSA 7.0 IP, 5 H, 7 SO, 1 BB, 1 ER, W
Teams (by GP): Twins/Pirates/Indians/Angels/Rangers 1970-1992
Agents: Dick Moss, previously: LaRue Harcourt [*]
Final Game: October 4, 1992 (Age 41)
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 2011 (463/581 ballots).
   View Bert Blyleven Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
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• 8/16 The Writer's Journey: 2011 Baseball Highlights: That “fun card” got me to thinking…if Donruss still made baseball cards and released a 56-card Highlights set...

• 7/26 B-R Blog: 5+ Seasons Since 1973 With 200+ IP and ERA+ >=120: How many pitchers, since 1973, have 5+ seasons with 200+ IP with an ERA+ of 120 or more? Here's the list - Rk   Yrs From To Age...
• 7/24 SocraticGadfly: Congrats Bert Blyleven, a top-20 pitcher: Bert Blyleven I previously posted about Bert Blyleven, in my opinion one of the top 20 MLB pitchers of all time, when he...
• 7/24 B-R Blog: Notes for Saturday 7/23: Dog days’ journey into night: -- Season debut for Tampa's Desmond Jennings: 3-2-2-1, 2 walks, 3B, 2B, SB, field littered with comic-book "swoosh!" lines. In...
• 7/23 MLBTradeRumors: Indians Notes: Carroll, Prospects, Ludwick, Harang: Neither Roberto Alomar nor Bert Blyleven will be wearing a Cleveland cap into the Hall Of Fame tomorrow, but both men spent significant...
• 7/20 Baseball Musings: Hall of Fame Day: I just received this press release from MLB Network on their Hall of Fame coverage this Sunday: Twelve-time All-Star Roberto Alomar,...
• 7/3 The Writer's Journey: Game 83: Bronson Arroyo has given up a league-leading 24 home runs so far this season, including three on Friday against the Indians. The...

• 6/11 Wahoo's Warriors: Bartolo Colon shuts down Tribe: Bartolo Colon held the Tribe scoreless through 6 2/3 innings on Saturday afternoon, the first former Indian to shutout the Tribe...
• 6/7 Baseball Musings: More on Harper: In the wake of “The Kiss“, this AP story is making the rounds about how Bryce Harper still needs to develop skills...

• 5/16 The Greatest 21 Days: Jeff Bittiger, Pretty Confident - 404: At five feet, 10 inches tall, Jeff Bittiger didn't exactly look the part. But, on Sept. 7, 1987, he certainly pitched the part.As...

• 4/23 The Captain's Blog: One Hit Wonders: Sanchez Loses No Hitter, but Still Puts Himself in Select Company: Anibal Sanchez came within three outs of pitching his second no hitter, but his attempt at history was thwarted by Dexter Fowler’s...
• 4/20 B-R Blog: One Time All-Stars, Most Seasons Without 20 Wins Or Saves: Of all the pitchers to once make an All-Star team, who has the most seasons where he did not win or save 20 games? Here's the...
• 4/18 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 4.18.2011: Jeff at Red State Blue State writes RE the commenter who called me an idiot and my retort: I can hear this dude sizzlin’ and...
• 4/14 B-R Blog: Unlikely No-Hit Pitchers: One of the fun new things we can do with the PI is to sort the results of a game-finder search by a season finder. Here are all...
• 4/6 Baseball Musings: Sabathia and 300 Wins: Two years ago I developed a probabilistic model of game scores to study why Bert Blyleven was not seen as a dominant pitcher....
• 4/4 Caught Looking: Garza’s historical debut: Matt Garza made his debut with the Chicago Cubs Sunday and of course with him and the Pirates involved, something pretty rare...

• 3/20 Motor City Bengals: AL Cy Young 2011: Does Justin Verlander have a chance? Lately I’ve been working on my predictions for what you might call our MCB office pool...
• 3/18 B-R Blog: Bloops: The Hall of (Peak-Weighted) WAR: Here's a cool link from Adam Darowski: Hall of wWAR: The Hall of Fame Re-Po**** by Peak-Weighted WAR It is exactly what it sounds...

• 2/2 The Juglandaceous Porthole: The Retired Number Index: When the Twins announced last week that Bert Blyleven’s #28 would be retired it came as no surprise.  Generally speaking getting...

• 1/18 It's About the Money (Stupid): Guest Posting: How Tampa Will Reload: Greetings backers of the beloved Bronx Bombers. I enter your domain under a flag of truce. Allow me to forewarn you that...
• 1/18 B-R Blog: Tough Loss Leaders Since 1920: What pitcher, since 1920, has the most career games where he threw 9+ innings, allowed 3 ER or less, and yet took the loss in...
• 1/13 The Golden Sombrero: The Baseball Show: Hall of Fame, Garza, Bryce Harper, Reds and White Sox: On Wednesday night, co-host Clint Evans from Diamond Hoggers and I were back at it with 2011’s first episode...
• 1/12 PaulLebowitz.com: Muddled: Trevor Hoffman retired yesterday and the Hall of Fame argument as to his worthiness has already begun. While he was playing there...
• 1/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 1.11.2011: Joe (**** on Twitter) writes RE Bert Blyleven and the Hall of Fame: I heard something interesting this week about him. I forget...
• 1/9 MLBTradeRumors: MLBTR Originals: Here's a look back at some of the analysis and reporting MLBTR's writing team produced this week.. Want to know what kind...
• 1/8 The Sporting Hippeaux: Much Ado About Nothing? (The Juiced Hall Era): Almost exactly a year ago I posted my concerns about the increasing irrelevance of the Hall of Fame.  I didn't expect there...
• 1/8 Jason's Baseball Blog: Weekly Links from the Baseball World: Time to take a look at some of the best writing from the last few weeks (I know, I’m a bit behind), as the major stories...
• 1/7 Baseball Musings: The ConvergenceBert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar faced each other in a game once, and even Jack Morris was involved. ...
• 1/7 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Beltre, Angels, Dodgers: On this date in 1992, Tom Seaver was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame along with Rollie Fingers. Seaver received 425 of 430...
• 1/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Check ‘Ya Self: The NFL banned excessive celebrating for a reason: The reason, I think, is that it starts fights. Mostly. But there are other...
• 1/7 MLBTradeRumors: Jack Of All Trades: Bert Blyleven: Wednesday's announcement that Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar earned election to the Hall of Fame was notable not merely for...
• 1/6 The Captain's Blog: With Blyleven Elected, Who’s Next? Raines In Line for Support of “Zealots”: (In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeU.) Now that Bert Blyleven...
• 1/6 YankeeAnalysts.com: The Hall of Fame continues its march toward irrelevance: Even by the Hall of Fame's increasingly low standards, yesterday's vote was a joke. Let's start with the only two position players...
• 1/6 Subjective Baseball: 2011 Hall of Fame: Winners and Losers: Winners:Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven: Well, obviously.  The former only had to wait two years, but the latter had to...
• 1/6 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Something often lost in Hall of Fame discussion: Maybe I’m the only one who feels this way.  Maybe I’m not enough of a baseball historian, and what follows could...
• 1/6 WSJ Daily Fix: Blyleven Celebrates; Brown Is Rejected: The Count: Bert Blyleven got his overdue induction into Cooperstown, but Kevin Brown got almost no support despite a strong case...
• 1/6 PaulLebowitz.com: Humanity And The Hall Of Fame: Before anything else, I went into Bert Blyleven‘s Hall of Fame candidacy in painstaking detail almost a year ago to this...
• 1/6 Crashburn Alley: The Insignificant Hall of Fame: At Baseball Daily Digest last year, I wrote an article by the same title in which I expressed the reasons why I no longer cared...
• 1/6 SocraticGadfly: Some post-HOF-vote final thoughts on Jack Morris: Now that Bert Blyleven is in the Hall of Fame, let's look once more at Jack Morris and why he shouldn't be, since we have two...
• 1/6 The Juglandaceous Porthole: Jeff Bagwell and the Unfortunate Fate of the Early Bloomers: What do Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, Alan Trammell, Ted Simmons, and Ron Santo have in common? The short and obvious answer: they...
• 1/5 Baseball Musings: A Bigger Hall: Nate Silver makes the argument that the Hall of Fame is too small: Other than the indulgences that the veterans committee made...
• 1/5 Call to the Pen: Alomar, Blyleven, Hall of Fame Voting, Consistency and Emotion: The results are in and we now know that Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer. Today’s...
• 1/5 B-R Blog: A great day for baseball stats: Bert Blyleven's election to the Hall of Fame is big, big news to me. Personally, I think that it signifies acceptance of advanced...
• 1/5 Baseball Reality Tour: 2011 Hall of Fame Voting Results: Congratulations to Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven! Blyleven for the Hall peeps could start backing Raines I suspect...
• 1/5 Pitchers Hit Eighth: RoBerto AlomBlyleven – Cooperstown Calls To Thee: Why the title?  Let’s face it.  Their names are forever linked.  According to Bert Blyleven: ”It’s been...
• 1/5 SocraticGadfly: Bert made it! - and steroids "made it" too: Bert Blyleven had finally made the Hall of Fame, as has Robbie Alomar. (That said, even with all the years of enlightening more...
• 1/5 Subjective Baseball: Ranking: World Series of the 1990s: A random list to herald HoF day.  Because, you know, why not?  Also, congrats to Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven....
• 1/5 Jason's Baseball Blog: Hall of Fame Announcement Reactions: Well, after all the posturing and writing about the ballots of the Hall of Fame, the BBWAA released their tallies this morning,...
• 1/5 My Pinstripes: BD Hot Stove: Beltre Finalizes Deal With Texas | Baseball Digest: BD Hot Stove: Beltre Finalizes Deal With Texas | Baseball DigestWhile the family and friends of Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven...
• 1/5 B-R Blog: Bert Blyleven & Roberto Alomar Elected To Cooperstown: Congrats to Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar! I'll have more here shortly. In the interim, please feel free to use this entry...
• 1/5 My Pinstripes: Blyleven Finds An Upsate NY Home At Last: Bert Blyleven has been vocal in his unhappiness over the perceived snub by Baseball Writers Assocation of America (BBWAA) voters...
• 1/5 Baseball Musings: Hall of Fame Voting: There were 581 ballots cast, a record. Roberto Alomar makes it, getting the third most votes in balloting history. Bert Blyleven...
• 1/5 MLBTradeRumors: Alomar, Blyleven Voted To Hall Of Fame: Congratulations to Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven, who were voted to the Baseball Hall of Fame today by the Baseball Writers'...
• 1/5 NY Baseball Digest: HOF Prediction: Alomar In, Blyleven Short, Palmeiro Goodbye: Later today the BBWAA will announce the latest member(s) to join the Baseball Hall of Fame. A year ago everyone assumed Roberto...
• 1/4 Baseball Musings: Alomar in the IBWAA Hall of Fame: Roberto Alomar was the only player elected by the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) in their second annual...
• 1/4 The Captain's Blog: Better Late Than Never: A Look at the Hall of Fame’s Longest Suffering Candidates: (In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeU.) The Hall of Fame voting...
• 1/4 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Is Cooperstown Worthy?: It’s a double-edged sword of a question that needs asking.  Is Cooperstown really worthy?  Is it worthy of all the respect...
• 1/3 Mets360.com: My 2011 Hall of Fame Ballot: This year’s Hall of Fame ballot is packed with people who deserve consideration.  Rules limit voters to 10 choices and I believe...
• 1/3 NY Baseball Digest: Finall NYBD HOF Ballot Tallies: Over the past week I created a survey so we could conduct a BBWAA style ballot for the readers of NYBD. Last year, you elected...
• 1/2 Baseball Musings: The Argument: Phil Bak sends me video of Jon Heyman and Joe Posnanski arguing about Bert Blyleven and Jack Morris going to the Hall of Fame. ...
• 1/1 The Golden Sombrero: Around The League: Harmon Killebrew, Hall of Fame, Braves’ bullpen, and Cubs’ prospects: Harmon Killebrew has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer and is currently being treated at the Mayo Clinic...
• 1/1 SocraticGadfly: Who would you vote back OUT of the MLB HOF - pitchers: I have been a strong defender of voting Bert Blyleven into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. I've been at least as adamant...

• 12/31 Subjective Baseball: 2011 Hall of Fame: My votes: On January 5, we will learn who will comprise this year's Hall of Fame class.  There is an unusually large number of qualified...
• 12/31 The Captain's Blog: Hall of Shame: Instead of Votes, Some BBWAA Members Cast Doubt; Bagwell A Chief Victim of Smear Campaign: (In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeU.) The holidays are also major...
• 12/30 NY Baseball Digest: NYBD Top 50 Mets of All Time: Let’s take another look at the history of the Mets. I recently gave you my “Top 10 Teams in Mets History” list,...
• 12/30 Call to the Pen: Jack Morris, the Hall of Fame and the Most Wins in a Decade: For whatever reason, Jack Morris has a seemingly large group of fans that believe he deserves a spot in the Major League Baseball...
• 12/28 Pitchers Hit Eighth: I Dreamed A BBA Hall of Fame Ballot: Please do not be alarmed.  Nobody has been foolish enough to actually entrust yours truly with a vote that actually helps determine...
• 12/27 NY Baseball Digest: NYBD Hall of Fame Vote: In addition to voting for our “Man of the Year,” I want to gather an unscientific Hall of Fame vote from the NYBD...
• 12/27 Jason's Baseball Blog: Hall of Fame Ballot Review 2010 – Conclusions: Well, over the last month and change, I have been reviewing many of the candidates for the Hall of Fame. You can find all of the...
• 12/23 NY Baseball Digest: Johnny Damon Might Become the Ultimate HOF Debate: Each year during the Hall of Fame debate we talk about arbitrary statistical benchmarks (300 wins, 3,000 hits) that baseball writers...
• 12/22 Baseball Musings: Vote for the Hall: The Boston Globe posts a page where you can vote your own Hall of Fame ballot. I voted for nine players: Roberto Alomar Jeff Bagwell...
• 12/21 Braves Journal: My Hall of Fame ballot (UPDATED because I **** up): 2011 Official/Potential Hall of Fame Ballot – Baseball-Reference.com. For some reason, I don’t get a vote, but if...
• 12/20 NY Baseball Digest: My 2011 Hall of Fame Ballot: Each year I discussed who I believe should be elected into the Hall of Fame. Although I don’t have a vote, it’s fun to...
• 12/16 B-R Blog: Bob Feller: Bob Feller has passed away at age 92. He was pretty well before my time and I don't know too much about him or his career. He...
• 12/4 B-R Blog: 4+ One-Hitters Since 1920: Since 1920, how many starting pitchers have thrown 4+ one-hitters? Here's the list - Rk Player #Matching   W L W-L% ERA GS CG...
• 12/2 Jason's Baseball Blog: Hall of Fame Ballot Review 2011 – Bert Blyleven: Around this time last year, I went through and reviewed the case for a number of players for the Hall of Fame, and whether or...

• 11/16 B-R Blog: Most Cheap Wins Since 1920: Bill James says that it's a “Cheap Win” when a starting pitcher wins a game where his Game Score was under 50. So, what pitchers...
• 11/11 The Writer's Journey: Starting pitchers and the Hall of Fame: Did you realize there are no starting pitchers in the Hall of Fame that debuted after 1967? Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Catfish Hunter…they...

• 10/21 B-R Blog: Data Dump: Postseason Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio Leaders: B-R user Simmy Cohen noticed that we don't have a K/BB leaderboard on our all-time playoff pitching leaders page, and asked if...

• 5/20 B-R Blog: WAR Data: Best Starting Pitchers Not In the Hall of Fame: Yesterday, I looked at the best eligible position players not in the Hall of Fame by WAR, and you responded with your votes by...