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Old 08-15-2019, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by D. Bergin View Post
Yeah, I remember stumbling across his stats a little while ago and being pretty blown away by that stretch.

68 Sox has both him and Hoyt Wilhelm and Bob Locker in the bullpen, almost untouchable and eating up tons of innings, while they had Tommy John, Gary Peters and a pretty effective starting rotation, and still ended up almost 30 games below .500.

The offense on that team had to be historically atrocious.
Pete Ward led the team with 15 HR and 50 RBI. Even in the year of the pitcher that's pretty anemic. The entire team hit 71 HR.
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