On the blog today, a career-capping "not so missing" card for former Boston Red Sox pitcher Jose Santiago, who finished up a nice 8-year Major League career with eight games in 1970:
Santiago
was suffering from an elbow injury suffered back in 1968, and was hit
hard over those eight games in 1970, to the tune of a 10.32 earned run
average over 11.1 innings, going 0-2.
The previous season he
appeared in only 10 games, not factoring in a decision while pitching to
a 3.52 ERA over 7.2 innings, striking out four while walking four.
In
the seasons between 1966 and 1968 he was a very effective arm who could
both start and come out of the bullpen, with his finest season 1967
when he posted a record of 12-4, leading the A.L. with a .750 winning
percentage, helping the Red Sox make it back to the World Series before
they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals.
He spent the first three
years of his career, 1963-1965 with the Kansas City Athletics, going a
combined 1-6 over 42 games, with eight starts thrown in.
All
told, by the time he left the Majors, he finished with a record of 34-29
over 163 appearances, tossing three shutouts and saving eight games and
posting a final ERA of 3.74 over 556 innings of work.
