Getting his first taste of the Major Leagues, Proly would go 1-0 over those 14 games, with a 3.71 earned run average.
He wouldn’t get any action in the Big Leagues the following year, spending all of 1977 in the Minnesota Twins Minor League system, before making it back in 1978, but now as a member of the Chicago White Sox, for whom he’d pitch the following three years.
He had a nice season for the Pale Hose, starting six of the 14 games he’d see action in and going 5-2 with a 2.74 E.R.A., completing two of his starts and picking up a save as well.
That was precisely the role he’d have with Chicago, and the rest of his career, pitching mainly out of the bullpen with an occasional spot start here ans there for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1981 and the Chicago Cubs for his final two MLB season in 1982 and 1983.
All told he finished his career with a record of 22-29, along with a nice 3.23 E.R.A., 22 saves and 185 strikeouts over 267 appearances and 545.2 innings pitched.
