Here’s
a “not so missing” 1979 card for former San Francisco Giants pitcher
Phil Nastu, who appeared in the first Big League games of his brief
career during the 1978 season:
Nastu was a September call-up in 1978, appearing in three games for the
Giants, with one of them a start, going 0-1 with a 5.63 earned run
average over eight innings.
The following season he’d get decent playing time, appearing in 25 games
and throwing exactly 100 innings while going 3-4 with a decent 4.32
ERA.
Sadly for him in 1980, after only six appearances, all out of the
bullpen, he was was done in the Majors, as he posted a 6.00 ERA over six
innings and was sent down to the Minors, where he’d go on to pitch the
next two seasons for both the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles
organizations before retiring for good after the 1982 season.
All told, he finished his MLB tenure with a record of 3-5, with an ERA at 4.50 over 34 appearances and 114 innings pitched.