Spriggs hit .138 over those 23 games, which was a return to the Big Leagues after spending all of 1968 in the Minors after playing parts of 1965 through 1967 with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
He would play in 51 games during the 1970 season, with 145 plate appearances, by far the most of any one season in his five-year Big League career, which would end up being his last.
In those 51 games he hit .208 with 27 hits and 12 runs scored and seven runs batted in before moving on to the New York Mets organization, where he’d play through 1972 in their Minor League system, before calling it a career.
All told, Spriggs’ MLB career resulted in a .191 batting average, with 43 hits over 225 at-bats, with 35 runs scored and 12 RBIs.
