Cuellar threw 6.2 innings over those four relief appearances, allowing only one run for a nifty 1.35 earned run average, with three strikeouts and two walks.
You’d think that the performance, as well as the fact that he was only 24 years old, would get him so more playing time the following year, but it wasn’t to be.
Cuellar would go on to spend the next eight seasons in the Minors, including the 1982 season in the Mexican League, before turning to Minor League managerial work.
Incredibly he has worked in some capacity (manager, coach, etc) in Minor League ball to this very day, a good 36 years!
Add his player experience, which started in Rookie Ball in 1974, we are now talking 45 years of the baseball life.
Incredible.
