Elliott first came up during the 1972 season as a September call-up with San Diego before playing all of 1973 in their Minor League system.
Making it back in 1974, Elliott batted .212 with seven hits over 33 at-bats with a couple of runs batted in and his first MLB home run.
He would spend the entire 1975 season in the Minors again, and though I can’t seem to uncover why, he would miss all of 1976 before going straight to the Majors in 1977, this time with the San Francisco Giants, where he’d see the most action of his brief career, appearing in 73 games and batting.240 with 40 hits in 167 official at-bats.
Once again, he would miss the following season, this time for what Baseball-Reference has listed as “voluntarily retired”, which seemed to end in 1980 since he made it all the way back to the Majors, now with the Oakland A’s.
After just 14 games with Oakland in 1980, he retired for good, finishing up with a .215 batting average over four spread-out seasons between 1972 and 1980.
Strange career.
