Roy Halladay, the former Philadelphia Phillies and Toronto Blue Jays pitcher who died in a November 2017 plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico, has been selected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Hall made the announcement on Tuesday.

Halladay won more than 200 games with the Phillies and Blue Jays. Both teams hold spring training in the Bay area, so Halladay had become a familiar face to local baseball fans.

Other players selected to the Hall of Fame on Tuesday were former Yankees closer Mariano Rivera and former Mariners designated hitter Edgar Martinez.

Halladay, who threw a no-hitter for the Phillies in the 2010 playoffs, crashed his single-engine plane north of Bailey's Bluff in Holiday on Nov. 7, 2017. He was the only person on board.

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said at the time that Halladay talked often about his love for flying.

Three times, he won at least 20 games in a season, and he had a 19-win campaign as well.  He won two Cy Young Awards (one in each league) and was an 8-time All-Star.  His career winning percentage of .659 is 20th-best in MLB history.

Halladay went 3-2 with a 2.37 ERA in five postseason starts, His postseason no-hitter was just the second in MLB playoff history. He retired after the 2013 season.

Rivera and Martinez were interesting cases for the Hall of Fame voters.  Both players are the consensus top players at their respective positions.

For Rivera, it was about determining the value of the closer.  Over a 19-year career with the Yankees, Rivera compiled 652 saves, the most in major league history.  He was also dominant in the postseason, with a record-low 0.70 ERA in 96 appearances.  His 42 postseason saves are also the best in the history of the sport.

Rivera's was named on 100% of the ballots, the first time in Hall of Fame history that there has been a unanimous selection, and was voted in on his first year on the ballot.

Martinez's case has been hotly-debated since debuting on the ballot.  The longtime Seattle Mariners designated hitter had fallen short nine previous times, with many voters admitting it was difficult for them to include someone who played in the field in just over 1/4 of his career games.

Ultimately, a career batting average of .312 and seven All-Star appearances in 18 seasons swayed enough voters to surpass the 75% threshold in his 10th and final year of eligibility.

Longtime AL East pitcher Mike Mussina was the fourth player selected to the Hall of Fame Tuesday.  Nicknamed "Moose," the former Orioles first-round pick also had an uphill battle to make it into the Hall of Fame.  The right-handed pitcher never won a Cy Young, fell short of 300 career wins, and won 20 games in a season just once.

But 270 career wins, and nine finishes in the Top-6 of Cy Young voting has earned Mussina a plaque in Cooperstown.

Tampa native Fred McGriff received 39.8% of the votes, well below the required percentage, but seems like a great candidate to get in the next time that the Veterans Committee considers players from the Modern Era, in December of 2021.

The Veterans Committee recently selected Harold Baines, who finished his career with more hits than McGriff, but is generally considered a tier lower than the Crime Dog, who starred at Jefferson High School before his 19-year MLB career.

McGriff finished his career with 493 home runs, 2,490 hits and ten 30-home run seasons.  He was selected to the All-Star team as a Tampa Bay Devil Ray in 2000.