On the blog today, a "not so missing" 1979 card for Rogelio Moret, who actually saw the last Major League action of his career in 1978 with seven games for the Texas Rangers:
Moret was
still only 28 when he saw that last action on a Big League mound, going
0-1 with a 4.91 earned run average in 14.2 innings pitched.
He
put in two seasons with the Rangers, with a year in Atlanta with the
Braves before that in 1976 when he posted a record of 3-5 over 27 games,
about half of those starts, with a bloated 5.00 ERA.
The
first six years of his career were with the Boston Red Sox, where he did
shine for two of those seasons, going 13-2 and 14-3 in 1973 and 1975
respectively.
He was a versatile pitcher who could start and
come out of the bullpen, giving the Sox a valuable arm during their 1975
American League championship year when he led the A.L. with a sparkling
.824 winning percentage.
Because of those two big seasons, he
finished his career with a very nice record of 47-27, for a .635
winning percentage, with a 3.66 ERA over 168 games, 82 of them starts,
with five shutouts and 12 saves between 1970 and 1978.
