Bomback appeared only two games that season, one of them a start, totaling 1.2 innings of work with a bloated 16.20 earned run average.
He’d spent the next year in the Minor Leagues before making it back to the big show in 1980, this time as a member of the New York Mets as a full-time starter.
In what was his only full-time season during his four-year career, Bomback put in a solid year for the Mets, going 10-8 with a 4.09 E.R.A., two complete games and a shutout over 162.2 innings.
Yet that wasn’t enough for him to stay at Shea, as the Mets traded him to the Toronto Blue Jays for a player to be named later in the form of Charlie Puleo, where Bomback would pitch over the next two years.
He closed out his career after the 1982 season, finishing up with a record of 16-18, with a 4.47 E.R.A. & 124 strikeouts over 74 appearances and 314.1 innings pitched.
