Now, stating “two-year” is being generous when you consider that Mahlberg played in one game during the 1978 season, his first taste of the Big Leagues. In that one game he went 0-1 at the plate, putting in four innings behind the plate defensively.
He’d be back in 1979, appearing in seven games this time, going 2-for-17 at the plate for a batting average of .118 with two runs scored and an RBI on his first and only home run.
He’d go on to play three more years in the Minors from 1980 through 1982, but never get a shot back a Major League game, finishing his Big League tenure with a .111 average, with two hits over 18 official at-bats in eight games.