Good day all!
On the blog today, we add Minnesota Twins
pitcher Dave Boswell to my new(ish) 1970 "20 Win Circle" sub-set,
celebrating the pitchers who reached the magic mark during the 1969
season:
Boswell had what turned out to be the
best season of his career in 1969, helping the Minnesota Twins take the
American League West by posting a record of 20-12 over 38 starts,
posting an earned run average of 3.23 and tossing 256.1 innings.
Sadly things went downhill for him rather quickly after that season, as he suffered an arm injury in the 1969 American league
Championship Series against the Orioles.
In 1970, he went 3-7
over 18 games, with a bloated 6.42 ERA before finding himself splitting
the 1971 season with the Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles, his last
year in the Big Leagues.
For his career Boswell went 68-56 with a 3.52 E.R.A., six shutouts
and 882 strikeouts before leaving the game at a young 26 years of age
due to the aforementioned injury.
Rough end to a once thriving career.
