Today on the blog we have a 1979 "not so missing" card for starter Steve Trout, as he made his Big League debut the previous season with the Chicago White Sox:
Trout had a very nice
debut, appearing in four games while going 3-0 with a 4.03 earned run
average, completing one game and tossing 22.1 innings.
The
following year was promising as he'd go 11-8 with a 3.89 for the Pale
Hose, saving four games while also tossing two shutouts over 34 games,
18 of them starts.
Though he'd lower his ERA even more in 1980
to 3.70, he'd see his record come in at 9-16, again throwing a couple
of shutouts while completing seven games, throwing what would end up
being a career-high 199.2 innings.
Overall he'd end up putting
in 12 years as a Major League pitcher, including a famously bad
second-half of the 1987 season with the New York Yankees that I
witnessed first-hand, that saw him go 0-4 with a 6.60 ERA while being
mercilessly torn apart by the New York press.
He finished his
career with a record of 88-92 over 301 games, with a 4.18 ERA and nine
shutouts, tossing 1501.1 innings and striking out 656 batters.