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.