Here’s
another former player from the decade that only appeared during a
late-season call-up for the sum total of his MLB career, former Houston
Astros outfielder Al Javier:
Javier’s big league career consisted of eight games between September
9th and October 1st of 1976, batting .208 with five hits over 24
at-bats, all of the singles variety.
Toiling in the Houston Minor League system since 1971, he would find
himself back down there in 1977, having a very nice season for the
Columbus Astros of the Southern League before moving on to the Chicago
Cubs organizations, for whom he’d play through the 1980 season before
leaving for a couple of years in the Mexican League.
He never did get another shot in the Majors and was out of pro ball at the age of 28 in 1982.