NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1976 DENNIS LEWALLYN

Here’s a “not so missing” 1976 card for former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Dennis Lewallyn, who made his Big League debut a season earlier:

Lewallyn appeared in two games for the Dodgers, pitching three scoreless innings at the age of 21, allowing only one hit.
He appeared in four games during the 1976 season, posting a record of 1-1 with a nice 2.16 earned run average over 16.2 innings of work.
The 1977 campaign would go on to be the most action he’d see over his eight-year Major League career, albeit still a small amount in the grand scheme of things, as he’d pitch 17 innings over five appearances, with a 3-1 record and 4.24 ERA for the National League champs.
After two seasons of appearing in one and seven games respectively, he’d pitch one season with the Texas Rangers in 1980, appearing in four games, then moving on to the Cleveland Indians, for whom he’d pitch the last two seasons of his career, appearing in 11 combined games between 1981 and 1982.
Overall, Lewallyn appeared in 34 Major League games, with a 4-4 record and 4.48 ERA over 80.1 innings pitched, starting three of those games and finishing 15.

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1977 DENNIS LEWALLYN

Up on the blog today we have a “not so missing” 1977 card for former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Dennis Lewallyn, for whom I also created a 1978 edition a while back:

Lewallyn appeared in four games during the 1976 season, posting a record of 1-1 with a nice 2.16 earned run average over 16.2 innings of work.
The 1977 campaign would go on to be the most action he’d see over his eight-year Major League career, albeit still a small amount in the grand scheme of things, as he’d pitch 17 innings over five appearances, with a 3-1 record and 4.24 ERA for the National League champs.
He’d pitch one season with the Texas Rangers in 1980, appearing in four games, then moving on to the Cleveland Indians, for whom he’d pitch the last two seasons of his career, appearing in 11 combined games between 1981 and 1982.
Overall, Lewallyn appeared in 34 Major League games, with a 4-4 record and 4.48 ERA over 80.1 innings pitched, starting three of those games and finishing 15.

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1978 DENNIS LEWALLYN

Here’s a “not so missing” 1978 card for former pitcher Dennis Lewallyn, who had an eight-year playing career that totaled only 34 games, evenly distributed between 1975 and 1982:

Lewallyn’s career is an odd one, in that he had “cups-of-coffee” eight times! Never getting a chance to put in significant time in any one season during his eight-year run.
His 1977 season for the National League champ Los Angeles Dodgers could be considered his best, as he posted three of his four career wins when he went 3-1 with a 4.24 earned run average over five appearances while collecting his only MLB save.
He’d finish his playing career after the 1982 season, playing for the Cleveland Indians, again appearing in only a handful of games in 1981 & 1982, seven and four respectively, going 4-4 with a 4.48 E.R.A., 28 strikeouts and a save over 80.1 innings and 34 appearances.
He never pitched in more than seven games in any one season, while appearing in only one in 1978, yet playing in every season nonetheless between 1975 and 1982.
Does anyone remember another player who played in as many seasons consecutively, yet only appeared in so few as well?