Sunday, December 3, 2017

NOT SO MISSING IN ACTION- 1978 ANGEL TORRES

Today we have a “not so missing” 1978 card for Angel Torres, Cincinnati Reds pitcher who appeared in the only five games of his brief career during the last few weeks of the 1977 season:


Torres made his first appearance in a Major League mound on September 12th, 1977, and his last on October 2nd, pitching to a nifty E.R.A. of 2.16 without a record over 8.1 innings of work.
In that time he also issued eight walks while also whiffing eight, allowing only two earned runs all out of the bullpen.
With that decent initial showing you’d think he’d have another shot at a job the following year, but he would end up pitching the next three years in the Minors, never making it back to the Majors before calling it a career after a 2-7 record with a bloated 6.00 E.R.A. in 1980 with Indianapolis of the American Association.