Tuesday, May 31, 2022

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1971 JOE VERBANIC

Today’s blog post has a career-capping “not so missing” 1971 card for former New York Yankees pitcher Joe Verbanic, who played the last of his Big League games during the 1970 season:
 
 
Verbanic appeared in seven games for the Yankees that season, making it back to the Majors after spending all of 1969 in the Minors, posting a record of 1-0 with a 4.60 earned run average over 15.2 innings of work.
Originally up in 1966 as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies when he went 1-1 with a 5.14 ERA over 17 appearances and 14 innings, he spent the next two years with the Yankees, going a combined 10-10 with an ERA around 3.00 in 177 innings pitched.
He would go on to spend all of 1971 and 1972 in the Minors, for both the Yanks and Phillies organizations, but never get a shot back at a Big League mound again, finishing with a record of 12-11, with an ERA of 3.26 in 207 innings pitched, with three complete games, two shutouts and six saves picked up along the way.

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