At the forefront of those former teammates is the late Roy Halladay, who was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in July of 2019. Just over nine years before Halladay was enshrined as a first-ballot Hall of Famer, the two-time defending National League Champion Phillies acquired him from the Toronto Blue Jays. Hamels – who had won the World Series MVP in 2008, but suffered a high-profile regression in 2009 – was almost in disbelief that the Phillies were able to acquire Halladay.