Today
on the blog we have a 1979 “not so missing” card for former Seattle
Mariners pitcher Rick Jones, who saw the last bit of Major League action
of his career during the 1978 season:
Jones appeared in only three games in 1978, going 0-2 with an earned run
average of 5.84 in 12.1 innings pitched, though he did strike out 11 in
that time.
That would end up being the end of his Major League tenure after parts
of three season in the Big Leagues, originally up with the Boston Red
Sox in 1976 when he did very well as a 21-year-old, going 5-3 with a
nice 3.36 ERA over 24 appearances, 14 of them starts, and 104.1 innings
pitched.
Sadly for him, he would end up being selected by the new Seattle
organization as the 22nd pick in the 1976 expansion draft, going from a
division power-house to a cellar-dwelling Mariners club.
He would end up going 1-4 for Seattle during their inaugural season of
1977, with an ERA at 5.10 over 10 appearances, all starts, and 42.1
innings of work.
All told, he’d finish his MLB career with a record of 6-9, with an ERA at 4.02 over 37 appearances and 159 innings pitched.