Thursday, December 26, 2019

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1972 MARCEL LACHEMANN

Time to go and close out the brief three year Major league playing career of former pitcher Marcel Lachemann, who made his last appearance on a Big League mound during the 1971 season:



Lachemann appeared in one game that year, pitching a total of a third of an inning, giving up two hits and two earned runs along with a walk against the Detroit Tigers on April 25th.
He would go on to spend the rest of the year in the Minor Leagues, pitching to a record of 5-2 with a nice 3.04 ERA over 43 appearances, but would never get a chance to get back to the Majors.
He would go on to play three more seasons in the Minor Leagues for both the Oakland and Montreal Expos organizations as a reliever, settling for a Big League career that had 70 appearances with a record of 7-4, with an ERA of 3.44 over 102 innings pitched.
He would also get some managing in the Majors decades later, managing the California Angels between 1994 and 1996, finishing his managerial career with a 161-170 record, leading the Angels to a second place finish in 1995.

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