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Terry D · 11-09-2017, 04:49 PM

Well, here's something you don't see every day: Nardi Contreras in color.

When I post a picture of an obscure player I try to say something interesting about him. I know how hard baseball is and how good a guy has to be even to make the majors. But Nardi Contreras defeats me. His first season as a pro came in 1969 in the Mets system, and it took him nearly eight years to get above AA ball. As of 1980 he had three seasons of AAA under his belt, seasons in which he posted ERAs of 4.24, 5.97, and 4.19. By then he was pushing 30 hard and clearly not even a marginal prospect. Yet in '80 the White Sox gave him 13.2 innings of relief work anyway, mostly as a mop-up man--he finished six of the eight games he appeared in, and every one of the games he appeared in was a White Sox loss. I'm not sure what the White Sox were thinking, but I suspect that they were simply desperate for any kind of long and middle relievers that year. Ed Farmer was excellent, Mike Proly was OK, and after that there was nobody--nobody being Rich Wortham, who had lost his spot in the rotation, Trevor Hoffman, and Randy Scarberry. (Dewey Robinson was a good AAA reliever, but the Sox never gave him much of a chance upstairs.) Anyway, heeere's Nardi, courtesy of ebay seller and White Sox specialist earlywynnfan (who often has excellent stuff).

11-09-2017, 04:49 PM	#31763
Terry D Major Leagues Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 422	Nardi Contreras White Sox 1980 Well, here's something you don't see every day: Nardi Contreras in color. When I post a picture of an obscure player I try to say something interesting about him. I know how hard baseball is and how good a guy has to be even to make the majors. But Nardi Contreras defeats me. His first season as a pro came in 1969 in the Mets system, and it took him nearly eight years to get above AA ball. As of 1980 he had three seasons of AAA under his belt, seasons in which he posted ERAs of 4.24, 5.97, and 4.19. By then he was pushing 30 hard and clearly not even a marginal prospect. Yet in '80 the White Sox gave him 13.2 innings of relief work anyway, mostly as a mop-up man--he finished six of the eight games he appeared in, and every one of the games he appeared in was a White Sox loss. I'm not sure what the White Sox were thinking, but I suspect that they were simply desperate for any kind of long and middle relievers that year. Ed Farmer was excellent, Mike Proly was OK, and after that there was nobody--nobody being Rich Wortham, who had lost his spot in the rotation, Trevor Hoffman, and Randy Scarberry. (Dewey Robinson was a good AAA reliever, but the Sox never gave him much of a chance upstairs.) Anyway, heeere's Nardi, courtesy of ebay seller and White Sox specialist earlywynnfan (who often has excellent stuff). Attached Images Last edited by Terry D; 11-09-2017 at 09:51 PM.