Today’s
blog post has a “not really missing” 1973 card for former pitcher Tommy
Moore, who made his MLB debut in 1972 with three appearances for the
New York Mets:
Moore put together a nice 2.92 earned run average over 12.1 innings of
work for the Mets,striking out five, though not factoring in a decision
in his first taste of the Big Leagues.
He’d appear in another three games the following season, with much
different results, sporting a bloated 10.80 ERA over 3.1 innings
pitched, taking one loss against no-wins.
He’d spend all of 1974 in the Minors before making it back to a Big
League mound in 1975, starting the season with the St. Louis Cardinals
before moving on to the Texas Rangers, going a combined 0-2 with a 6.13
ERA over 39.2 innings.
Again, he would spend an entire year in the Minor Leagues, this time the
Bicentennial year of 1976 before being purchased by the new Seattle
Mariner organization, going on to appear in what would be his last Major
League games, 14 to be exact, during the team’s inaugural season of
1977.
He went 2-1 for Seattle, with an ERA of 4.91 over 33 innings, starting
one of those appearances, striking out 13 while walking 21.
All told, he finished his brief career with a record of 2-4, along with
an ERA of 5.40 over 42 appearances, three of them starts, and 88.1
innings pitched.