Perzanowski appeared in the first five games of his Major League career in 1971, going 0-1 with a bloated 12.00 earned run average in six innings of work at the age of only 20.
He’d spend the next three years in the minors before making it all the way back in 1974, albeit in only two games, and again, getting hit hard to the tune of a 19.29 ERA in 2.1 innings pitched for the White Sox.
After a change in scenery, now with the Texas Rangers, he’d go on to have a nice 1975 season when he posted a record of 3-3 with a 3.00 ERA over 12 appearances, eight of them starts.
However the following year it was back to the rough times, as he posted yet another year of double-digit ERA, this time at 10.03 without registering a decision over five appearances and 11.2 innings of work.
After another year in the Minor Leagues in 1977, he was back on a Major League mound in 1978, now with the Minnesota Twins, where he went 2-7 with an ERA of 5.24 over 13 games, starting seven of them, which would end up being the last MLB action he’d see in his brief five-year career.
All told, he finished up with a career 5-11 record, with an ERA of 5.11 over 37 appearances and 142.2 innings pitched, with two complete games and two saves.
