Well, I’ll disagree. I think Blyleven belongs. I didn’t collect or even look at baseball cards, I watched baseball.
Based upon what. When was Bert even the best pitcher on his own staff, much less the league? Three or four times, maybe? Personifies “good, but not great.” Hung around long enough to get some good stats. Just because a mistake was made with Sutton doesn’t mean it should be compounded with Blyleven. His contemporaries who have made it so far (Palmer, Seaver, Jenkins, Niekro, Hunter, Carlton, and Perry) are head and shoulders better than him.
Ditto for Ron Santo. He has a higher career batting average than Mike Schmidt, most of it during the pitcher's era from 1962-69, whereas Schmidt played most of his career afterward. Santo could field almost as well as Brooks Robinson, the gold standard for third basemen, and completely outshined him in producing runs. Nobody but an idiot will argure Schmidt or Robinson don't belong. With Santo being so close to both, I don't see how he can keep getting passed over either.