Roy Halladay - 2019 HOF Blue Jay - Homegrown Hero

Former Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay has been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Halladay, who died in a plane crash on Nov. 7, 2017 at age 40, will be inducted into the national baseball shrine in Cooperstown, N.Y., this July along with Mariano Rivera, Edgar Martinez and Mike Mussina.


Former Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay has been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.


Halladay, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, received 85.4 per cent of the vote by the Baseball Writers' Association of America announced Tuesday night. Eligible players need at least 75 per cent to be inducted.

Halladay spent 12 seasons with the Blue Jays from 1998-2009, pitching more than 2,000 innings and winning the American League Cy Young in 2003.

He represented Toronto at six all-star games — he appeared in eight overall — had three 20-win seasons and five with 200 or more strikeouts, and earned the NL Cy Young with the Phillies in 2010 in his first season in Philadelphia.

The towering right-hander signed a one-day contract with Toronto in December 2013 to retire as a Blue Jay.
Toronto retired Halladay's No. 32 on opening day of the 2018 season, four months after he died when the small sport plane he was piloting crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
"The other day I was thinking how sad it is that he's not around to be with his family and enjoy this great moment," said Edgar Martinez, a former designated hitter with the Mariners. "It will be a moment that his family will be very proud of him and remember him and honour him so it's kind of bittersweet.
"As a player facing him, he was very difficult. ... I don't remember having a lot of success against him because it felt like it was always a tough at-bat."


"Unfortunately we don't have him with us but he was a tremendous competitor," Mariano Rivera said.

"Of the countless players that have worn the Blue Jays uniform, few have done so with the determination and elegance of Roy Halladay," Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro said in a release. "Today is a bittersweet day for our community and organization, as we remember a beloved pitcher, teammate, and family man, but we can take comfort in the boundless impact Roy had on Canadian fans nationwide and the game of baseball.

"On behalf of the Toronto Blue Jays organization and all of our fans, we congratulate Brandy, Braden, Ryan, and the entire Halladay family on this monumental honour."

Halladay amassed a 203-105 record and a 3.38 earned-run average and 2,117 strikeouts over 416 regular-season major league games and was 3-2 with a 2.37 ERA through five post-season starts, all with Philadelphia.

He became just the second pitcher in major league history to throw a no-hitter in the post-season, opening the 2010 National League Division Series with one against the Cincinnati Reds in the first playoff start of his career.

 He was a winner, and he usually finished what he started.

His games traditionally finished in under 2 hours, a rarity nowadays.

He was a Blue Jay.

He will be remembered, and honored always.