On the blog today, we have a "not so missing" 1975 card for former San Diego Padres pitcher Joe McIntosh, who made his MLB debut in 1974:
McIntosh
appeared in 10 games for the Padres in 1974, going 0-4 with a decent
earned run average at 3.62 over 37.1 innings of work.
Half of
those appearances were starts, something that would increase the
following season when he would make 37 appearances, with 28 of those
starts as well.
In that 1975 season, which turned o0ut to be
the last of his brief Big League career, McIntosh went 8-15 with an ERA
at 3.69 over 183 innings, with four complete games and a shutout.
Following
that season he was part of a trade to the Houston Astros that got the
Padres Doug Rader, but I can't seem to find any reason why he never
played between 1976 and 1978, not even in the Minors.
He did
return to professional ball in 1979, still in the Houston organization,
appearing in four games for the Gulf Coast League Astros squad and
pitching nine innings, but that would be it.
All told, his MLB time resulted in a record of 8-19, with a 3.68 ERA over 47 games and 220.1 innings pitched, with 93 strikeouts and 77 walks in parts of two seasons.
