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.