Monday, November 5, 2018

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1973 TOMMY MOORE

Today’s blog post has a “not really missing” 1973 card for former pitcher Tommy Moore, who made his MLB debut in 1972 with three appearances for the New York Mets:


Moore put together a nice 2.92 earned run average over 12.1 innings of work for the Mets,striking out five, though not factoring in a decision in his first taste of the Big Leagues.
He’d appear in another three games the following season, with much different results, sporting a bloated 10.80 ERA over 3.1 innings pitched, taking one loss against no-wins.
He’d spend all of 1974 in the Minors before making it back to a Big League mound in 1975, starting the season with the St. Louis Cardinals before moving on to the Texas Rangers, going a combined 0-2 with a 6.13 ERA over 39.2 innings.
Again, he would spend an entire year in the Minor Leagues, this time the Bicentennial year of 1976 before being purchased by the new Seattle Mariner organization, going on to appear in what would be his last Major League games, 14 to be exact, during the team’s inaugural season of 1977.
He went 2-1 for Seattle, with an ERA of 4.91 over 33 innings, starting one of those appearances, striking out 13 while walking 21.
All told, he finished his brief career with a record of 2-4, along with an ERA of 5.40 over 42 appearances, three of them starts, and 88.1 innings pitched.

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