NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1974 JOE STATON

Next up on the blog, we have a “not so missing” 1974 card for former Detroit Tigers first baseman Joe Staton, who played out the final nine games of his brief two-year Major League career in 1973:

Staton collected four hits over 17 at-bats in those nine games, hitting .235 with three runs batted in and two runs scored.
The previous year he made his MLB debut, playing in six games while going hitless in two at-bats, with a run scored.
Turn out that Major League action in 1973 would be the last of his professional career, though I can’t find any other info on what he went on to, as Baseball_Reference shows he didn’t even play Minor League ball after the 1973 season.
Anyone out there know?
Nevertheless, Staton finished with a 15-game career that saw him hit .211 with four hits in 19 at-bats, all with the Detroit Tigers between 1972 and 1973.

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1973 JOE STATON

Up on the blog today we have a “not so missing” 1973 card for former Detroit Tigers first baseman Joe Staton, who appeared in the first six games of his brief two-year Major League career as a September call-up in 1972:

Staton went 0-2 at the plate in that brief action, playing some first base while also pinch-running, scoring a run while also striking out once.
The following season he got into nine games for Detroit, collecting four hits over 17 at-bats, good for a .235 batting average, with three runs batted in and two runs scored.
But that would be it as far as Big League action for the 25-year-old, as he would go on to play the next two seasons in the Mexican League before retiring in 1975.
All told he got to play in 15 games in the Majors, finishing up with a .211 average with four hits in 19 at-bats.