Freed, who put up some big time stats in the Minors during his pro career appeared in eight games with Montreal in 1976 after spending all of 1975 and most of 1976 in the Minor Leagues.
Over those eight games he hit .200 with three hits over 15 at-bats, driving in a run.
In the Minors that year all he did was hit 42 home runs while driving in 102 runs, and this was only over 398 at-bats and 122 games!
All that did for him was get drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1976 Rule 5 Draft and get part-time play over the next three seasons, which would be the final three years of his Big League career before finishing up with one last season in the Minors in 1980.
Originally signed by the Baltimore Orioles, he put up some great years in the Minor Leagues between 1966 and 1970, hitting as many as 31 homers and driving in as many as 130 runs, while also hitting as high as .334, all while in his early 20’s.
But after some brief action with the Orioles in 1970 he was shipped off to Philadelphia, where his average hovered around .225 with hardly any power, so back he was in the Minors in 1973 and 1974 before a late-season call-up with the Cincinnati reds at the end of 1974.
By the time he retired he finished with 22 homers with 109 runs batted in and 49 runs scored, along with a .245 batting average over 344 games and 717 at-bats.