Gomez played in 89 games during the 1975 season, batting .139 (ugh) with 10 hits over 72 at-bats, scoring seven runs and driving in five.
OK, with those numbers I get why Topps left him out of the 1976 set.
But the previous year, he was coming off a rookie season of 1974 that saw him play in 82 games, with 186 plate appearances, hitting .208 with 35 hits over 168 at-bats, scoring 18 runs, which, though not stellar numbers, easily could have gotten him a card in the 1975 set, no?
Nevertheless, Gomez would go on to play eight-years in the Majors, hitting .210 over 609 games with 263 hits in 1251 at-bats for the Twins, Toronto Blue Jays and Atlanta Braves before finishing up after the 1981 season.
