Wednesday, October 25, 2017

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1977 AL JAVIER

Here’s another former player from the decade that only appeared during a late-season call-up for the sum total of his MLB career, former Houston Astros outfielder Al Javier:


Javier’s big league career consisted of eight games between September 9th and October 1st of 1976, batting .208 with five hits over 24 at-bats, all of the singles variety.
Toiling in the Houston Minor League system since 1971, he would find himself back down there in 1977, having a very nice season for the Columbus Astros of the Southern League before moving on to the Chicago Cubs organizations, for whom he’d play through the 1980 season before leaving for a couple of years in the Mexican League.
He never did get another shot in the Majors and was out of pro ball at the age of 28 in 1982.

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