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The 40th pick in the 1976 expansion draft, Stanton went on to have a very productive season for Seattle in their inaugural campaign, hitting 27 home runs while driving in 90 runs with a very respectable .275 batting average.
Oddly enough, after a sub=par season in 1978, which saw his home run total plummet to three while only appearing in 93 games, he was out of Major League ball for good.
1979 would see him play in Japan for the Hanshin Tigers, where he would hit 23 homers, though he only drove in 58 runs while hitting only .225, which would be the last professional action he would have, though I did see somewhere that he may have played in the Mexican League in 1980. But I can’t find any stats or record of this actually happening.
Anyone know? He was only 34 at that time.