On the blog today, a "not so missing" 1978 card for former Big League infielder Rafael Landestoy, who made his Major League debut in 1977 with the Los Angeles Dodgers:
Landestoy
appeared in 15 games for L.A. in 1977, hitting .278 with five hits over
18 at-bats with six runs scored and a couple of stolen bases.
He'd
open the 1978 season in the Minors before finding himself traded to the
Houston Astros in July for former catcher Joe Feruson, and he'd go on
to play 59 games for Houston during the season.
In that time he'd hit .266, collecting 58 hits in 218 at-bats, scoring 18 while driving in nine with seven stolen bases.
In
both 1979 and 1980 he'd get regular playing time, the only instance of
that over his eight-year career, hitting .270 and .247 over a combined
278 games, pretty much setting seasonal career-bests across the board.
Between
1981 and 1984 he'd play sporadically, never more than 73 games in any
one season for three teams: Houston, Cincinnati and Los Angeles, never
even reaching the "Mendoza Line" (.200).
By the time he
finished after the 1984 season, he retired with a .237 batting average,
with 291 hits in 12340 at-bats over 596 games, scoring 134 runs and
driving in 83.
