Roy Halladay is ranked the best pitcher in Major League Baseball by almost every single analyst. He is without a doubt great, and his presence on the mound automatically gives your time a greater chance to win. In 2011 he had a 2.35 ERA over 233 innings, with 220 strikeouts and 19 wins. A season that great does not win the Cy Young due to Clayton Kershaw's win of the triple crown.
Well we all know Roy Halladay is a fantastic pitcher, but what exactly makes him so great? Well first of all he doesn't give up runs. The other team can't win if they don't score. Just 65 runs for the entire year were charged to Roy Halladay and only 61 of them were eared runs. Roy Halladay only allows a hitter to hit a fly ball 30.6% of the time and his home runs to fly ball percentage is 5%.
Halladay also gets plenty of ground balls; 50.9% to be exact. The abundance of ground balls allows Halladay to get batters to hit into double plays and keep his pitch count low. Halladay also throws many different pitches. The reason why that is important is because he throws them all for strikes and mixes his pitches effectively. When he pitches he thinks, he throws what the batter is not expecting.
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