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the blog today we have a “not so missing” card for former reliever Mike
Stanton, who made his Big League debut in 1975 with the Houston Astros:
Stanton appeared in seven games for Houston as a 22 year old, going 0-2
with a 7.27 earned run average over 17.1 innings of work.
He’d go back to the Minor Leagues for the next four seasons before
making it back to a Major League mound in 1980, now as a member of the
Cleveland Indians, for whom he’d pitch the next two years before moving
on to the Seattle Mariners in 1982.
He’d pitch for Seattle for the rest of his seven-year career save for
the final 11 games of his career with the Chicago White Sox in 1985,
appearing in 277 games, all but three of them out of the bullpen,
finishing with a career 13-22 record, with a 4.61 ERA and 31 saves and
304 strikeouts over 384.1 innings of wor.